New-York tribune., 1921-01-23
Martens Sails
DeLuxe,Reds
In Steerage
5000 Cheer Soviet En-.
voy as He Is Shipped
to Russia, With Staff,
in Flower-Filled Cabin

Ludwig C. A. X. Martens. unrccog-
nized Soviet ambassador" to the United
States, was deported from this country
on the Swedish-American liner Stock
holm yesterday. The liner sailed from
the pier at Fifty-fourth Street and
North River
With Martens were his wife and two
children and forty-six members of his
staff, among them Gregory Weinstein,
formerly an associate of Leon Trotzky
on the Novi Mir, Bolshevist paper
published in this city, and "chancer1or"
of the Soviet "embassy."
There were also on board sixty-four
men and eleven women and children,
deported from the United States as
dangerous radicals. They were brought
to the pier from Ellis Island, accompa-
MED by customs inspectors and immi-
grafton guards.
More than 5000 friends and synN
pathizers Of Martens and the deportee
crowded the Swedish American and
nearby piers, and for hours waved
goodby and threw kisses at the pas
sengers. The waving and cheering
were intermingled with the strains of
the "Internationaie," the "Hymn of
Free Russia" and other revolutionary
songs. Only one passenger from aboard
the liner waved a red flag at the crowd
beloY, while boy, five years old, in
ho ND hot 70 I'll Mo- rtov II
farewell, waved small American flag
Friendly Toward United States
Martens was deported on order OF
Secretary of Labor Wilson because he
represented government which despite
Martens's repeated protestations OF
friendship for the United States was
tions to the overthrow of the American
government by force.
In explaining the deportatio order
against Martens Secretary, Wilson
made it clear that while there was
nothing against Martens personally
the American government could not
harbor representative of a govern
ment which sought the violent over
throw of the government of the United
States.
In a statement issued yesterday
shortly before the departure of the
Stockholm Martens again repeated his
o1ft-professed feeling of friendship for
the United States, but ignored the
charge df Secretary Wilson. Martens
declared in his statement that he was
confident that either he or some one
else representing the Soviet govern
ment would soon be back in the United
States and that the United States
would eventually recognize Soviet
Russia.
81 do not regret leaving the United
States" said Martens, Especially at
the present time while conditions are
as they are. 1t will only be a matter
of short time, however, before either
or another ambassador from the Rus
sian Soviet government returns.
take my leaving, as do members of my
staff, as merely temporary move,
which will be wondered at in the near
future when the United States and So
Wet Russia get together on friendly
terms"
Two Willing to Follow Martens
While the members of Martens's
party and seventy-five deportees an
reared to be thrilled with expectation
in taking their leave from the United
States. the crowds gathered on the
Swedish American Lines pier despite
their enthusiasm for the ''ambassa-
dor" did not seem to evince any strong
desire to follow him. When some one
aboard the Stockholm shouted to ask
how man. of them would like to go to
Russia there we're two responses of
willingness The rest Of the hundreds
who heard the query were confused and
were silent.
Each of the forty-six members of
sage to Gothenburg and thence. to
Libau. Martens. Mrs. Martens and
their two children, William, five years
old, and Swetlana, two and a half years
old, were given two cabins de luxe
CONTINUED on noxt papo)