RUSSIAN SCANDALS.
FIFTY OFFICERS SENT TO GAOL, WHOLESALE FRAUDS. Oy Tclccraph—Prc93 Association-CopyrletV (Rec. July 19, 0.35 a.m.) St. Petersburg, July 18. Tho trial of the two generals, twentyono colonels, twenty-eight captains, nnd four State Councillors connected with tho Moscow Supply Department an charges of extortion and bribe-taking has concluded. Five of tho prisoners have been sentenced to loso their rank and to undergo three years' imprisonment. Two have been acquitted, and tho remaining forty-eight have been given sentences of from nine to thirty months' imprisonment. One of the accused was alleged' to have received .£27,000, and it was calculated that one firm during twenty-five .years paid ,£2,000,000 in.bribes. Tho indictment charged the Department with accepting soldiers' boots of inforior quality. The soldiers sold tho boots which, the contractors acquired and redelivered to tho Department. It was also alleged that clerks deliberately spoiled the samples of firms which did not give bribes.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1183, 19 July 1911, Page 7
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151RUSSIAN SCANDALS. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1183, 19 July 1911, Page 7
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