Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-01-27
RUSS OPEN ARMS
To "ARK's" PARTY
Deportees From U. S. Greeted at
the BoIshevist Border.
CONFER WITH RED AGENT
Exiles Are Fed and Will Be Given
Homes by the Soviet Government
Will Be Put to Work
Gorky's Wife There.

Terijoki, Finland, Jan. 21.-Russians
who were deported from the United
States were given what might be
termed an official reception just out
side this village Monday.
In the crowd that greeted Alexander
Berkman, Emma Goldman and their
Comrades was M. Zorien, member of
the all-soviets executive committee,
who, after a brief conference with
Berkman, agreed to permit the whole
party to enter bolshevig Russia.
There is no question but that they
will be welcomed in Russia, said NJ.
Zorien. We will give them work &C
cording to their professions and
trades, but first we must provide them
with comfortable homes and feed them
we'll"
Open Arms for "Persecuted."
Nine. Gorky, wife of the novelist,
said when she met the deportees:
Russia opens her arms to all who are
politically prosecuted"
There was slight delay in getting
in touch with the bolsheviki, whose
lines were about a mile distant from
the brook marking the frontier of
soviet territory. When finally a con-
ference had been arranged, Berkman,
accompanied by Finnish officers and
newspaper correspondents, went out
on the ice, meeting the bolsheviki in
the middle of the stream.
Both parties conspicuously displayed
white flags, the one carried by the boil
shevik soldiers being a tablecloth tied
to a red pole. After short parley the
soviet officers summoned the members
of the soviet committee of Petrograd.
which included Joseph Feindeberg,
former British labor leader, and NJ.
Zorien. The committee was conduct
ed to Terijoki, where a conference
was held
Cheer Capture of KoIchak.
On the way back to the village NJ
Zorien told Berkman that Admiral Kol-
chalk had been made prisoner in ST.
IBERIA. This news was shouted to other
deportees who were leaning out of
the windows of the train and was re-
ceiyed with cheers.
Shortly after the decision to re-
ceive the deportees was reached the
whole party detrained at point where
wood road leaves the railway and
runs toward the forest. A few who
were unable to walk were placed in
sleighs. Finnish soldiers guarded the
road and the transfer was made with
out a hitch.
Capt. Emil Nielsen of the British
Red Cross entered soviet Russia with
Ing deportees for the purpose of ar
ranging shipment OF supplies to Brit
lsh prisoners. The train waited for
him at Viborg and it was not until
nine o'clock Monday morning that it
reached Terijoki.
Conditions have considerably i'm
proved in Petrograd, according to NJ
Zorien, who said everyone there was
getting one and a quarter pounds Of
bread a day. There was comparative
ly little idleness and wood and fuel
were more abundant, making life more
pleasant than heretofore, he said. The
greatest difficulty had been expert
enced il getting coal to operate fac
tories, but recently as a result of i'm
proved transport some had been
brought up from the south. NJ. Zorien
spoke enthusiastically of an expert
ment begun last week in organizing
forces for work.
Army Put to Work.
"Our crack third army. which was
the best of those used in Siberia
against Kolchak, withdrawn from the
front" lie said. "and although this
organization is kept under strict mil
itary discipline, it is no longer fight
ing, but is a working machine Its
principal task is supplying Petrograd
with food, which is secured direct
from peasants, and bringing IN wood.
As our military requirements de-
crease we hope to convert more Of
our troops to industrial purposes, and
still keeping each unit intact on mill