Evening star., 1920-01-04
700 "REDS" TAKEN
IN NEW YORK AND
HUNT STILL IS ON
Ellis Island Swamped- Three
Ships Being Made Ready
for Deportations.
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK. January 3.-Armed
with more than 800 warrants. federal
agents and police detectives contin-
ued their search tonight for radicals
accused of plotting to overthrow the
government, who escaped the gov
ernment's dragnet which has netted
700 prisoners in the last twenty-four
hours in Greater New York
Throughout the day, under heavy
escorts of coast guards. police and
government agents. the radicals cap
tured in this city together with hun
dreds brought. in from northern New
Jersey sections were transported to
Ellis Island. AS a result the immi-
grafton station is swamped tonight
with its record jam of alien anar1
chists held for deportation proceed
ings.
Getting ss"soviet Arks" Ready.
While boatload- after boatload of
Russian, Finnish and other alleged
| to the immigration pens on. the is
land. it was reported that three
steamers were being put in readiness
to follow the soviet ark" Buford to
soviet Russia with hundreds more of
'undeSirables."
The Army transport Fitzpatrick,
which has been at the Army base in
Brooklyn the past fortnight being over
! hauled, it was announced at the Fed
eral building. probably will be soviet
ark No: 2. The vessel is expected to
sail this month with a cargo of the
revolutionists.
In addition to the Fitzpatrick, the
Army transports America and Presi-
dent Grant. among the largest of
the troop transports duringthe war,
are also reported to be making
| ready for similar voyages. Both
| liners seized in American ports, are
being held in readiness for "emer-
gency" service. it was learned.
Arms and Ammunition Taken.
Bombs, rifles. pistols, bayonets,
! knives and ammunition seized in
| raids on radical centers in Newark
and Elizabeth. n. j., lent a sinister
| air to the reported activities of rad
! icals captured by government agents
! there and in other northern New
| Jersey sections. Tons of seized
propaganda literature, which is al
! legged to have urged the overthrow
| of the government by violence, were
| being Systematically sorted and
| studied by federal agents tonight.
| Inc department OIL Justice mead
| quarters here was swamped with an
| enormous amount of red banners,
| communist and communist labor party
! papers. l. w. w. membership cards,
| and pictures of Lenin. Trotsky, Lieb-
| knecht. Emma Goldman. Alexander
Berkman and Rosa Luxembourg, that
were. seized in the wholesale raids
! last night.
| Seek Evidence ms to Martens.
Agents of the bureau Of investiga-
| ton under Chief William J. Flynn
! were engaged all day and tonight in
, hunting through this great mass for
| evidence connecting Ludwig c. A. X.
! Martens. Russian soviet Ambassador"
| to the United States, with participa-
| ton in promoting communist activi-
| ties in the United States.
| If Martens. who has constantly de-
| fled attempts of Investigate s to OBJ
| tain information concernlr his ac-
/ tivities for Trotsky and -enin, is
| shown to be connected will the COM
munists' activity in America, he will
| be reported to the congressional COM
| mittee investigating radicalism, for
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