Evening star., 1920-01-20
i. S. REDS ENTRY
lNI0RUSS|AG GAY
BoIsheviks Warmly Welcome
Deported Radicals Just
Over Finnish Frontier.

TERIJOKI, Finland, Monday, January
10 (by the Associated Press)
who were deported from the United States
were given what might be termed an Off
cial reception just outside TINS viiage
today. In the crowd that greeted Alex
ander Berkman, Emma Goldman and
their comrades, was NJ. Zorien,
member of the all-soviets' executive
committee, who, after brief confer
ence with Berkman. agreed to permit
the whole party to enter bolsheyik
Russia.
There is no question they will be
welcomed in Russia" said NJ. Zorlen
I'VE will give them work according
to their professions and trades, but
first we must provide them with COM
Portable homes and feed them well"
Nine. Gorky, wife of the novelist,
said when she met the deportees:
"Russia OPENS her arms to all who
are politically prosecuted
Delay in Getting I'm Touch.
There was a 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 con-
ference had been arranged. Berkman,
accompanied by Finish officers and
newspaper correspondents. went out
on the ice, meeting the bolshevikl IN
the middle of the stream. Both parties
conspicuously displayed white hags,
the one carried by the bolshevik sol
diers being a tablecloth tied to a red
pole.
After a short parley the soviet Of
ficers summoned the members of the
soviet committee of Petrograd, which
included Joseph Feindeberg, former
British labor leader. and NJ. Zorien.
The committee was conducted to Teri
ioki, where a conference was held.
On the way back to the village NJ.
Zorien told Berkman that Admiral
Kolchak had been made prisoner in
Siberia. This news was shouted to
other deportees who were leaning out
of the windows of the tram and was
received with cheers.
Transfer without Hitch.
Shortly after the decision to receive
the deportees was reached the whole
party detrained at a point where a
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
without hitch.
Capt Emil Nielsen of the British
Red Cross entered soviet Russia with
the deportees for the purpose of ar
ranging a shipment of supplies to
British prisoners. The train waited
for him at Viborg, and it was not
until o'clock this morning that it
reacher Terijoki
Frenzy OF Enthusiasm.
The deportees, laden with suit cases
and boxes, trudged through the deep
snow laughing and singing revolutionary
songs as they neared the border. Hearty
cheers were raised by the Russians
waiting for them on the other side of
the frozen Systerbak river, which sepa-
rates the Finnish and bolsheviki lines.
Willing hands helped them to scramble
up the steep banks, and amid the ruins
Of the war wrecked town of Bielo-Os-
troy. overlooking the stream, the boil
sheyiki gave the eXiles greeting that
stirred up a frenzy of enthusiasm and
delight among the newcomers. They
dropped their luggage, whipped off their
cans as a military band played the boil
sheviki anthem, and, cheering wildly,
broke open their boxes of food and cigar
cites. brought from the Buford, distrib-
utinE them lavishly among the crowd.
An amusing sight was a bolshevik
officer waving a can of American pork
and beans as he gave orders to the SOL
f]jers. A mounted brigadier commanded
the troops, which included boys, who
appeared to be scarcely more than
twelve years of age. Emma Goldman
and Alexander Berkman were last to
cross the river, waiting until the others
were safely over.
'aThis is the greatest moment of my
life,' exclaimed Miss Goldman to the
Associated Press. after thirty-five
years of absence I am returning to
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