The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-14
REDS ARE
.PEACEABLE
AS LAMBS
10 Trouble Whatever on Soviet
Ark, Where 249 People
are Being Taken to
Russia.
ENJOYING THEIR FOOD
Part Of Trip Across Was Stormy and
Anarchists Complained of Bad
Air When Doors Were
Closed.
ENJOYING THEIR FOOD
[By Carl d. Groat, United Press
Staff Correspondent

iTBy Carl d. Groat, Unlted freSs
Staff Correspondent
| KEEL, Jan. 1.-THE 249 deportec
radicals aboard the United States
transport Buford--the soviet ark T.
have been as "peaceable as lambs,
officers of the transport told the
United Press today.
The ."reds" have been eating al
| they can get" but have made no ois
turbances and offered no threats o,
what they will do when they reacn
Russia, the officers said.
/ American correspondents were
taken aboard the vessel today.
| There have been some slight dis
satisfactions among the crew, it was
learned, and three sailors. one OF
Irish and two of German birth. de
serted Saturday night, apparently
with the aid of a German fishing
boat in the harbor
Repair work on the Buford was
proceeding rapidly, officers said, and
she probably will sail Tuesday or
Wednesday for an unknown port. The
former reported destination near
Reyal was incorrect, it was learned.
The report arose from a misunder-
standing. German newspapers were
told the Buford probably would land
at "a Baltic port" and they confused
this with the name "Balticport" As
the outer harbor near Reval is known
here.
The reds" were permitted to
gather ON the forward deck daily
when the weather was fair, officers
said They spent their time singing
the Marsellaise and in exercising.
Part of the voyage was stormy and
the radicals were forced to stay be-
low decks. The crew battened the
matches and some Of the reds" COM
planned of bad air
Desertion of the three sailors was
not mentioned aboard the Buford, but
German officials on the harbor police
boat told of it as did officers on the
water boat which supplied the Buford
with fresh water. The parents OF
one of the German deserters live,
near Kiel.
A sailor on the destroyer Ballard,
which conveyed the Buford, told the
United Press correspondents:
"Alps peaceful so far, but those
reds look troublesome. On some
occasions they have jeered u.s.
There were no threats Of hunger
striking. it was said.
Alexander Berkman and Emma
Goldman spent most of their time in
reasonable discussion. on general
topics, officers said, but always be-
came angry when any OF the immi-
grafton officers aboard mentioned
bolshevism.
German harbor authorities at Kiel
have offered full cooperation, the
said. Last night when a
boat tied alongside the Ballard loosed
her moorings, sailors from a nearby
German police boat jumped into the
icy water and untangled the boats
lines from the Ballard's propeller.
American sailors pulled the Germans
aboard and warmed them. They were I
praised by the Buford's officers.
The commander of the Buford did
not receive the correspondents, but
sent out message saying he was
under secret orders and could not
disclose his destination. He denied
wireless reports that the reds" came !
aboard the transport at New York |
cursing the United States.
The boiler trouble which caused !
the Buford to drop IN here for re-
pairs was natural and not caused by |!
the reds, he said, adding repairs |
probably would be completed tomor.
row.