FINED AND DISMISSED.
TRIAL OF A RUSSIAN GOVERNOR. (bi TELEOBArn—rauss association—copiuionr.) London, February 8. Baron Fredericks, formerly Governor of Nijni-Novgorod, was tried before the Senate and dismissed from the Government service and fined 10,000 roubles, or a year's imprisonment, for negligence and corruption in connection with tho Gourko-Lidwall grain scandals in 1907.
: ; A; oommission to investigate cer: tain matters . connected with famine' relief reported that on' September. 21, 1907, M. Gourko; in defiance of M. Stolypin's'. instructions that local governors. should buy: the. grain, telegraphed to the looal authorities not to :do "so. as he :had the matter in bis own hands, and the same' day. 'he. advanced:M. Lidwall ,£SO,OOO.' On September 29 another .£IOO,OOO /was paid inlo M. Lidwall'a account, although tie latter had not furnished a single pood. Tho contract was concluded without proper reference tV'the Departmental 'Committee, ■: and practicaiiV granted M. Lidwall a monopoly. , '
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 428, 10 February 1909, Page 7
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147FINED AND DISMISSED. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 428, 10 February 1909, Page 7
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