“ OUT, OUT ! ”

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10522, 25 February 1920, Page 3

“ OUT, OUT ! ”

THE ARK OF ANARCHY SAILS UNDER SEALED ORDERS. Singing tho “Internationale” at the top of their voices and shrieking derisive imprecations at the statue of Liberty, about 300 -Bolshevik and Anarchist aliens recently sailed away for Soviet (Russia on board the old army transport Buford (says a Now i'ork exchange;. Most of them had criminal records, and all had tried once too often tho patience of this great nation, which had offered the freedom and opportunity denied to them in their native land. • The Now World had endured their abuse of its hospitality until it could stand no more, and then- it-rosewith grim determination to cleanse its house of them and all the likes of them that have too long defied its laws with impunity. Among deported Rods are Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman, the notorious Anarchist loaders, who for long years have been unhealthy features' of the body politic. . There were only two other women among the passengers. Many of the travellers arrived in batches from all sections of tho country to join those who for some time had been detained at tho immigration station on Ellis Island. Formerly tho British ■ 1 "steamship Mississippi, the Buford is a slow vessel. She is provisioned for sixty days. Just what port is her destination has not been announced, and the captainhimsolf does not know- until ho opens his sealed orders twenty-four hours after the Soviet ark (as the transport is dubbed) has cleared Sandy .Hook. Revolvers have been issued to the crew, and there is a strong guard of marines aboard. ■ All possible comforts liaye been, provided for the unwilling passengers. Rod Cross nurses go to chaperon and attend on the women. Some of the Reds, notably Emma Goldman, are .wealthy, for they have made a fat living out of. their subversive activities; all seem to be well provided with money. Having started the, work of ridding the United States of these undesirables, tho Government is determined to make a thorough job of it; ’ Tho House of Representatives have passed comprehensive and drastic amendments to an Act adopted years ago for the exclusion or expulsion of dangerous .aliens, while tho Senate has ordered an investigation into the operations of Russian, Bolshevik propagandists in this country.. .