RUSSIAN ARMY SCANDAL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 674, 26 November 1909, Page 7

RUSSIAN ARMY SCANDAL.

HUGE EMBEZZLEMENTS. OFFENDERS DESPOILED OJ? THEIK MANSIONS. (By Telegraph-Press Association -Copyright ) St. Petersburg, Novomboi > 21. It is reported that the qrmy scandals at Moscow in connection with the army commissariat department involve ombezzlements amounting to olerai millions sterling annually, and a million and a half at Moscow alono. Supplies sufficient for a wholo nrmy corps have been stolen at Kicff anil Odessa Somo o{ tho prisoners havo purchased splendid estates and mansions, and theso have been confiscated. , Soventy further arrosts, in addition to tho Bixty-sis officials now charged, are impending.

THE PLUNDERED RED CROSS FUNDS. Tho above startling disclosures recall n similar case of plunder of the first magnitude in 1901. It was supposed at the beginning of'the Manchunan War that the Hus6ian lied Cross funds amounted to thuty million roubles, but tho discoverj vas made that tho entire sum, to the last copeck, had been appropriated by the Grand Dukes. It us behe\cd that one or two of thorn Were degraded by tho Tsat in consequence. Tho Red Cross trains proceeding to tho Far East were miserably equipped. Medioine bottles were found to bo lull of ordinary water, sawdust took the place oi other medical comforts. The train of disaster following in the ivako of such heartless dishonesty was incalculable. Tor some considerable time following the debacle at Mukden it is estimated that 5000 Russians perished per day of proventiblo diseases, and tho total losses of the war reached tho astonishing aggregate ..of 750,000—th0, responsibility .-of. which 'has to a groat extent been .attributed to Jhe t plundering Grand Ducal clique. , J ,,, -, ~_, f j