UNSAVOURY DISCLOSURES
POLICE CORRUPTION IN RUSSIA. By Tplesrraph—Press Aeaociation-CoDyrlclit "Times" mid Sydney "Sun" Services. St. Petersburg, May 23. Tho police of Odessa have been exacting a tributo of £8600 a year from sixty disorderly houses. The grafters wished to drag a now police \nspoctor into tho "school," and finding that their threats irero of no avail'mvited him to a luncheon, and as he appeared to acquiosce in their proposals, laid before him a full list of tho housas which paid tribute, together with tho amount of their contributions. Tho inspector requested a fow hours for consideration of their offer, and wag permitted to retain the documents until nest day. Ho then had tho papers photographed, and tho police who have been implicated will be prosecuted.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2157, 25 May 1914, Page 5
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125UNSAVOURY DISCLOSURES Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2157, 25 May 1914, Page 5
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