Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-07-06 | Page 3 | Would Rather Die than be Deported

WOULD RATHER DIE THAN BE DEPORTED BALTIMORE, Md Julv 6 -After close que.st ionlng Cor two hours by a board tff t'nite,l states immigration service officers at the customs house today. Anna Vivdenko and Eugenia Bonar younp women who arrived Monday ;ls slow-aways on the steam- ship Manitow. were ordered deported to Russia Tho women claim to be ..opera '-ins. An appialwlll be made vVashlngton. Dishonor. torture Imprisonment nn.j probable death the refugees say. .Will be their lot If they are deported. I "We cannot believe that we will be sent back." said the young women aft-jer aft-jer thev had heard the verdict "The Americans have been kind and generous gener-ous and so good to us and to thousands of put" suffering countrymen that we think it impossible that they Will allow al-low Us to be sent back to be killed.'' The declare they will commit suicide sui-cide rather than return to Russia.