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Show All But Five of the 68 Starving Radicals Eat Ravenously. SILENCE STRIKE ENDS Immigration Inspectors Find No Difficulty in Getting Hearings. I NEW YORK, No 29. The hunger strike of the "Ellis Island soviet" was broken today All but five of the sixty-eight radicals who had refus. .1 in cat since last Monda evening eagerly answered 'he call to the dining room ' for breakfast. After a five d.y fast they were rav-r-nou? and were first In the immi grants' dining hall. They de cured prunes PauSn, bread substitute butter jand coffee and asked ir more. Second Sec-ond helpings were refued. however, , not only because one w as considered adequate, but the radicals might have ' made themselves ill by eating too much. Those who continued the hunger strike included Ethel Rernstein and Dora Lipkin Tbty were the only women on hunger strike. The silence strike of the 1J8 also ha collapsed. Word that the department of justice was providing the island with eight husky guards to force them to attend deportation hearings before immigration inspectors was brought to the radicals by their counsels. The guards had not arrned today, but the inspectors found no difficulty in getting get-ting radicals to go from the detention : room to the hearing room. |