New-York tribune., 1920-01-20
Telegram Stating Only 3
on "Ark'' May Enter
Comes After Radicals
Had Crossed Border
Mrs. Corky First
TO Greet ExiIes
Goldman, Berkman and
Bianky Believed To Be
Those in Lenine's Favor

AitNi" ~A>i' '''t ~ Nbv Inc ASSOcl
ated Press ).-The band of 247 Bolshe
wiki and anarchists deported from the
United States are safely across the
Russian frontier tonight, but whether
all the members OF the party will re.
main safe in Soviet Russia is a cues.
ton to be determined by all the Boil
shevik authorities.
Hardly had the last of them passec
over the border than belated tele
gram reached the Finnish military Off.
Gals in charge of the transfer, an
nouncing that the Soviet government
had decided to permit only three of the
deportees to enter.
Their names have not been made Dub.
Ilc, but those thus favored are believed
to be Emma Goldman, Alexander Berk-
man and Peter Bianky.
Welcomed at Border
The telegram is incomprehensible, ir
view Of the fact that a delegation, in
Guiding the wife of Maxim Gorky, came
out to receive the cxiles, and elaborate
preparations had been made by the
frontier Bolsheviki to welcome them.
The depoNees, laden with sultcases
and boxes, trudged through the deel
snow laughing and singing revolu-
tonary songs as they neared the
border at O'Clock this afternoon
Hearty cheers were raised by the Rus
slams waiting for them on the other
side of the frozen Systergak River
which separates the Finnish and Boil
shevik lines.
Willing hands helped them to
scramble up the steep banks, and amid
the ruins Of the war-wrecked town OF
Bielo Ostrov. overlooking the stream
the Bolsheviki gave the exles a vocif-
erous greeting that stirred up frenzy
of enthusiasm and delight among the
newcomers.
They dropped their luggage. whipped
OFT their caps as a military band PLAYED
the Bolshevik anthem, and cheering
wildly broke open their boxes of food
and cigarettes brought from the Bu-
ford. distributing them lavshly among
the crowd.
officer waving a can of American pork
and beans as he gave orders to the
soldiers. mounted brigader com
manded the troops, which include d
boys, who appeared to .e scarcely more
than twelve years old. Emma Gold
man and Alexander Berkman were last
TO cross the river, waiting until the
others were safely over
Miss Goldman Happy
This is the greatest moment Of my
life exclaimed Miss Goldman to The
Associated Press. after thrty-tive
years of absence / am returning to
Russia with Il feeling OF awe. am
glad to leave America, but | love Amer
lean people and expect to return there
some day.
Discussing her plans, she said she
would continue to write for American
publications..
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. Replying to
charges made by Hector NJ. Holmes, Of
Boston, that the deportation Of some Of
the radicals aboard the steamship Blu
ford was "brutal," Secretary of Labor
W Wllson declared in Il statement tonight
that although the expulsion OF thou
sands Of aliens each year cannot be
accomplished without some. suffering.
both to the deported and their families.
he had not heard Of any specific cases
OF brutality in the Buford deportations.
Families Separated
In q letter to Secretary Wilson
Holmes said that never in history have
dep0rtations been more brutal than
some particular cases involved in the
Buford where husbands and fathers
were torn from tnclr families, prob
ably never to be reunited, and were
given 10 time whatever in which to ar
range their affairs and transfer their
property
Secretary Wilson said in his reply it
should be realized that statutes which
explicitly require deportation OF aliens
do not take family suffering into ac-
count any more than penal laws do.
Although favorng the expulsion Of
aliens by judicial determination rather
than by administrative actions, he de-
clared that as long as the duty de
volved upon the Department Of labor
it will perform its functions with as
little suffering to the aliens and their
families as the circumstances will
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