Bisbee daily review., 1921-12-18
CHEKA OPERATES UNHAMP FIRED BY SOVIET LEADERS
Mystery Headquarters of Red Commission Scene of Many
 Trials and Executions

MOSCOW, Dec. 17.-(By a staff correspondent of the Associated Press) Leslie Urquhart's recent an nouncement in London that no for eigners will ever be aO.e 70 uo pusi- ness in Russia while the cheka (com- mission to suppress counter-revolu- tions) holds it's present power. mas become generally known in soviet Russia and has attracted much at tention.
 Urquhart was recently in Russia ne- gotiating with the comm:ssariat for foreign trade to take over extensive mining properties and metal works, many of which he controlled before the revolution. While the negotia- tions were proceeding a strange man appeared in the conference room. Urquhart inquired who he was.
 "Oh, that's the representative of the cheka," was the reply.
 But I am not dealing with the cheka and I shall not discuss busi- hess before this man." the English mining man protested.
 Leonid Krassin, minister Of con- merce, and other negotiators ex- plained that the cheKa was privileged to be represented at all conferences.
 Cneka Man stands Fast
 Urquhart was obdurate. The cheka man refused to leave until telephone instructions fro mthe cheka headquar- ters withdrew him.
 Diplomats and commercial repre- sentatives selected by the chiefs at the Kremlin to go abroad are passed on by the cheka and a large per centage of the appointments are never confirmed.
 Even the crowd which stands at the head of the soviet government and is privileged to live within the historic walls of the Kremlin is re- ported to be powerless against the uper-government which has grown up about the cheka.
 At one time, Djerjinsh and Jacob Peters and the other men who fig ured as the heads of cheka activities when the red terror took place, were regarded as dummies raised to take blame which the commissars who make up the council. or cabinet and members of the central executive committee did not wish to shoulder.
 But the opinion is now strongly grounded among Russians of all classes that the cheka is a very real institution The higher personnel in the organization changes frequently, or at least pretends to change. How ever. Djerjinski and MinJinsky and Peters and othec men whose names have figured prdminently in cheka activities may never be able to per suade the average Russian that they have really left the organization.
 Umslicht is at the present moment the man who is generally supposed to be the active head of the cheka. He has his office in the central head quarters of the organization, which occupies a large office building in the business center of Moscow, overlook ing the Kremlin walls.
 Mysterious Shots Heard
 The cheka building is six stories High and is triangular in shape with A court in the center Much of the space facing the court has been turned into cells and is the Lubianka prison, where most important politi- cal prisneors are kept.
 Rumor has it that executions take place in the cellar of rnis building. and pedestrians often report that they have heard shots when walking near the building Muscovites sell dom walk close enough to the cheka headquarters to hear cannon shots in the cellar. The streets adajoining it are not popular promenades.
 Eyduk, the Jason officer whom the bolshevik government has named to be the go-between for the American relief administration and the Krem- linn. is a cheka man.
 Colonel Haskell's organization has had no trouble with the cneka, which is apparently satisfied that the Amer jeans came to Russia to feed starv- ing children and are not trying to in- ID