A MINISTER SHOCKED,

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1927, 9 December 1913, Page 9

A MINISTER SHOCKED,

ENGLISH MAGAZINE ARTICLE CAUSES TROUBLE IN RUSSIA. ' An English inagaa'no lias been unwit>tiugly tlw cause of the gj'av-est commotion in the highest administrative circles in- Russia, Adiniial l.rigorovitch, the Russian 'Minister of Marine, passing 0110 of th« St. Petersburg bookshops, thought ol buying the latest, issue of. this lua.gaxiiii;, On looking through its pages ho became interested in an article dealing with Russia, but having read a few passages frum it he found, to bis liorror, that it was teeming with subversive motions, highly detrimental to tho political interests of tho empire. lio immediately reported the fact to M. Mnklakoil', Minister of the Ulterior, who, having in his turn perused tho article, instantly gave orders to the police to tincl out how this highly tlanROrous m.-igastinc had found its way into th« Empire. It turned out that it had formed part of n parcel of books addressed to the-shop i.ll question, and that- t!m parcel had been delivered bv the customs authorities without previous consultation with the oensonhio department. Thereupon 11. Kokovtsctr, tha Premier, and Minister of Finmice, to whom the customs administration is subordinated, was drawn into tho affair, <mcl an order wont forth from him to nr,A-c a "strict" inquiry into tiro scandal, to punish the. officials rpspemsiblo for sucii an extraordinary licglret cif duty, and to take "are in future that no hook passes the customs without, bring iirst submitted to the censorship.