The Alaska daily empire., 1920-02-02

(The following description of the saiIinu of the first Soviet Ark" with
 deportees bound to Russia, was writ ten by an ex-soidier and published q in the American Lesion's official niaqazine. It will be remembered the Legion demanded the Red exodus.- The Editor.)
 Account closed, clerk in the Immigration Bureau well might have stamped the records of 249 alien an archists recently deported And the office boy, had he studied Caesar, might have added by way of embel- lishment, They came; they started something; they deported.'' The vanguard of anarchists and red radicals, pelutors of American
 life, are out of the country, bound for radical points East where red theory and red practice are ore and the same. After long suffering from the malady of unassimilable aliens the American body polite has had to
 resort to stringent remedy to cieanse its system. The first cleansing treat
 ment was taken on the morning of December 21, when the transport Buford sailed for Russia Before this is published, second transport with similar cargo of unass;iDil lble aliens will be en route. May the emetic which America has been compelled to resort to be sufficient;
 potent to purge the national system of the last of the 60,0OO alien reds on the books of the Attorney General
 In the semidarkness of early morning. the first transport crept down the harbor and out to sea- No opportunity was granted the deport- ees for a grand stand play as mar tyrs. Complete Secrecy shrouded the proceedings. Not ur.n the after. noon papers announced that the Soviet Ark" had sailed at 6.30 o'clock that morning did New Yorks parlor Bolshevists and other red sympathizers know that their heroes were gone.
 Then was precipitated riot at the barge office. Between 150 aud 200 men and women stormed the Of flee demanding that they be permit ted to visit Ellis Island to ascertain if certain friends and relatives were among the deported. Coast Guard men rushed from the office and drove the rioters back, while a hur- ry call was sent in for police reser- yes. Cursing the government and the police the rioters were taken to a nearby station and locked up, Most of the deportees were mem
 bers of the Union of Russian Work CTS. an anarchictic society formed | here in 1907 by Russian Said now
 to be Chief of Police in Petrograd.
 Many were the possessors of lurid 1 police records. but undoubtedly tie most notorious of the deportees wereAlexander Berkman and Emma | Goldman. Besides Goldman, two
 other women were of the party Dora Lipkin and Ethel Bernstein. The Buford's unwilling passengers
 were only part of the anarchist col ony mobilized at Ellis Island since l the country wide raids by Depart ment of Justice agents on November l7. Within day or two after the raids, they were brought to the
 Island in groups of from five to twenty. handcuffed and guarded.
 l They arrived with their belongng-
 ings in bundles, hand bags and small
 trunks of queer European design.
 Aboard the Buford they carried this
 same luggage. but greatly augmented
 by generous contributions of warm
 clothing from an easy going, good
 natured Uncle Sam and from relat- lives and red sympathizers. They
 fare also reported on good authority
 to have taken nearly a half million American dollars back to Russia. It
 would be poetic justice if these an
 archists. with their perpetual cant and rant about capitalists on arrival
 in Russia are also declared to be 1 and themselves thrown into prison. At the present rate of money ex-
 change each deported red should be
 Russian. billionaire.
 Its an awful comedown for the old Buford." muttered the Quarter master on watch as the anarchists ! mounted the transports gangway And an awful comedown'' the staunch old transport must have felt it to carry such a cargo after lately
 carrying to and from the scenes of war the men who faced death under
 the colors flying from her Ensign l staff
 I Not until they boarded the tug which carried them from Ellis ls