Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-01-14
EXPORTED REDS
LACT LIKELAMBS
DURING VOYAGE
Eat All They Can Get, but Are
quiet and Make No Threats,
Says Writer.
PORT STILL A SECRET
BY CARL ID. GROAT,
United Press staff Correspondent.

United Press staff Correspondent.
KEEL. Jan. 12.-The 249 deported rad1'
Gals aboard the United States transport
Buford, the soviet ark" have been as
''peaceable as lambs" officers Of the
transport told the United Press today.
The reds have been "eating all they
can get" but have made no disturb
ances and offered no threats Of what
they will do when they reach Russia,
the officers said.
American correspondents were taken
aboard the vessea today.
- There have been some slight dissaris-
factions among the crew, it was learned,
and three sailors. one of Irish and two
of German birth. deserted Saturday night
apparently with the aid of German
fishing boat in the harbor-
REPAIR WORK
PROCEEDS RAPIDLY.
Repair work on the Buford was pro-
ceeding rapidly, officers said, and she
probably will sail Tuesday or Wednes-
day for an unnamed port. The former
reported destination, near Reval, was in
correct, it was learned. The report
arose from a misunderstanding. Ger
man newspapers were told the Buford
probably would land at "a Baltic port
and they confused this with the name
s'Baltfc port" as the outerharbor near
RevaI is known here.
The rods wese permitted to gather on
the forward deck daily when the weather
was fair, officers said. They spent their
time singing the MarseIlaise and in ex-
erciging. Part of the voyage was stormy
and the radicals were forced to stay
below decks. The crew battened the
matches and some of the reds complained
Of bad air.
LEARNED OF DISCRETION
FROM THE GERMANS.
Desertion of three sailors was not
mentioned aboard the Buford, but Ger
man 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 correspondent: "Alps peace
full SO far, but those reds look trouble
some. One some occasions they have
jeered u.s.
There were no threats Of hunger
striking, 1t was said.
H. Alexander Berkman and Emma Gold
man spent most Of their time in reason
able discussion on general topics, Of
fcers said, but always became angry
when any of the immigration officials
board mentioned bo1shevism.
GERMANS OFFER
EVERY AID.
German harbor authorities at Kiel
have offered full cooperation, the Amer
leans said. Last night when a boat, tied
alongside the Ballard, loosed her moor
ings, sailors from a nearby German po-
lice boat jumped into the icy water and
untangled the boats lines from the
Billiards. propeller. American sailors
pulled the Germans aboard and warmed
them. They were praised by the Blu
fords officers.
The commander of the Buford did not
receive the correspondents, but sent out
a message saying he was under secret
orders and could not disclose his des-
tination. 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 repairs, was
UAural and not caused by the "Ieds," he
waid, adding repairs probably would be
completed tomorrow.