The New York herald., 1921-11-29
CHEKA AGENTS BANE
OF GOOD RUSSIANS
Fear Of Secret Police II Fed
by Crimes Of Violence
Against Citizens.
EXCEPTIONS TO THE RUIN
Chief Lander Befrielsds q Gif3
Abused by Bandits and
Executes Them.

A staff correspondent OF tho Assc,
ciated Press. writing nom Moscow. oc-
tober 81, says: "If you see a Chclrs
agent ON the right eide of the stree
take the left side,~ Ia q common sayins
in Russia, showing the fear instiller
by the<secret police, which ir crediteL
here with untold crimes and violence.
Its agents lock up people and try 70
execute them. if they see At. according
to popular information. AS there are nc
police In Russia, IL devolves on this
organization to keep the peace and
when necessary. control the Red army.
While travelling through the entire
length of Russia, the Associated Press
correspondent was ehadoWed, from cit.
TO city. by these aHcntr. but never both
cred by them. As 5. Turkey, thorr
mission was possibly to protect the cor
respondent and not involve the Soviet
Government in fresh complications re-
garding its treatment Of Americans.
That the Cheka keeps order is evi-
dent from the fact that there is at
present order everywhere in Russia, ex-
cept for bands OF robbers among the
Don and Kubau Cossacks, calling them
selves the Green army and now and
then holding UP trains In the region be
tween the Black and Caspian seas, along
the line from Kostov to Petrovsk.
While passing through this region the
correspondent learned of one good deed
Of the Cheka, the details of which ir1i-
cate how frightfully Russias people
have suffered from their revolutions
Commissaire Lander Of the Kiev Cheka
was spending the summer for his health
at the beautiful watering place of KisIo-
vodsk, once one OF the most fashionable
OF the north Caucasus baths. One night
there. went to his house q young man
and woman who told of the sudden dis
appearance Of certain Countess. a
pretty girl of 20, belonging to one OF
the most famous OF the old Russian
NOBILITY.
Lander started an investigation and
by morning had found the girl, but in
dreadful condition. 1t developed that
while sitting in one of the parks of this
town the evening previous two men had
placed her under arrest in the name OF
the Cheka as a white spy and kept
her prisoner in a lonely house.
Lander put at once all the machin-
cry of the Cheka at work, had all
the trains watched and by night had ar
rested two bandits who We're identified
as the criminals. While the men were
being returned TO kislovodsk, they leaped
from the train and escaped. Lander, af-
ter twelve days OF search, again arrestes
them at Rostov, where they were a.
once executed.
Lander IL now spending his own
money IN an effort to aid the girl, as shs
and her family are without resources.
Against this good deed thousands of
evil ones are told. According to on@
OF these stories the Cheka searched tbs
home of a university professor and ply
sician, DR.. Floriansky. a year ago III
Kiev. and found In his desk forgotten,
list. dated 1908, OF forty-three mem
bers OF patriotic organization. MAN.
OF whom were notable professors AMI
physicians. The Cheka. accused the ply
sician of counter revolution. arrested all
the men named in the list still in kiev
and shot all of them r