New Britain herald., 1930-03-06
RUSSIAN GENERAL ]: JUST DISAPPEARS
Friends Fear KoutepOf Is Victim : Of Red Enemies
BY MINOTT SAUNDERS


 Y Paris, March 6 - No internation- ,$l political plot in recent years has so stirred the liberty loving con- seriousness of the French people as the mysterious disappearance, in the heart of Paris, of General Route poff. "White" Russian military lead -er, who is believed by the police to nave been abducted by agents of the Jheka, Soviet secret police.
 Is Koutepoff dead or alive, and &f alive, what torture is he under going? These are questions heard everywhere. The press of the cap- ital is thoroughly aroused and the %nost astute detectives of the surete general are feyeriShly working on The case.
 = Led Happy Family Life
 ~ General koutepoff, who succeeded Grand Duke Nicholas as generalis Simo of White" Russian military Organizations and became the popu Jar leader of all ranks of Russian refugees, left his home for a Sunday Tnorning walk and has not been seen since. His private life with his wife end five year old son was of the -happiest and Investigation has shown That he had no financial worries. = The theory that the police have accepted and moro or less substan ~iated by witnesses, is that the gen. Tral was stopped by two men in q large gray automobile who repre- scented themselves as police agents
 Ii. Them to headquarters. Naturally Suspicious. his apprehension was dis pelled, it is assumed, by the fact that at this moment a uniformed policeman stepped up and saluted the two strangers, giving every in- -dication that he knew them as his chiefs. Koutepoff stepped into the car and disappeared. No policeman was on duty at the spot at the time. and French detectives have con- cluded that the uniformed man was an accomplice dressed as French policeman, He accompanied the others.
 " koutepoff, war veteran and man of strong will, lived in fear of his life and his followers say that nu- merous plots were directed against him by Soviet agents, but he lived as a private citizen and therefore under French protection.
 Nlassing for a Raid
 Although Moscow has denied all knowledge of the affair, political circles there are as much disturbed as in France. The Soviet ambassa- dor, M. DoygalovslNi. has requested and been granted police protection for the embassy because, he told NJ. Tardieu, that the White Russians in Paris were massjng for d raid against the embassy to discover clues to the disappearance of their leader. He claims diplomatic immunity against demands of certain French newspapers that the police investi- gate the embassy.
 With a knowledge of the grim methods of the notorious Cheka, Friends of the general believe he was spirited away and either killed or is being subjected to torture to get From him secret plans of the anti Soviet Russians.
 Knowing the Soviets as we do We believe the general is dead" said 2 former minister of the Tsar, now an emigrc here. If, as we feel cer- tain, agents of the Soviet secret po- ffce kidnapped him it was for the purpose of torturing him to get the secrets of our anti-Soviet organiza- lions. If he talked, it is certain they Killed him afterwards. If he has rr. rlsed to talk then he is being sub- Jected to the most excruciating scientific tortures.
 In front of the generals home il the rue Rousselet, in q fashionable residential district his partsans arc Keeping constant vigil because it is feared that if he refuses to talk his son of will be kidnaped too and tortured before kouteDas eyes Mime. Koutepoff will not ue com. forted and is sure her husband i. dead.
 In the meantime, hundreds O. Russians have been examined ana the colony is in high state of ex. citement over case that might have far-rcaching epercussions. Frencf political circles have been aroused over the outrage
 The disappearance of Genera koutepoff follows the sensutiona case of Gregore BessedoN sky, frs secretary of the embassy, who plac cd himself in the hands of tn, French police, claiming that agent of the Cheka tried 10 arrest and thcT Kill him because he refused 10 re, turn to Moscow to explain his diver gent political views. He has sine, been condemned to death by a Mos COW military court and demands were made by Moscow for his eX tradition. While he remains here severe attacks against French meth. ods in protecting him are being made in Moscow newspapers.