GRAFT IN RUSSIA
'I'HIM WHO STEALS I HANG"!
(Rec. March 6, 0.35 a.m.)'
Petrograd, March 5. At the opening of the war one of the army contractors wanted, tho Grand Duke Nicholas (Generalissimo of the Russian Army) to "discuss the question of supplies, aad was kept waiting in the ante-chamber for hours. Finally the Grand Duke appeared, ignored tlie greet-' ing, and said: "Him who .steals I hang.. Good uioming I"
* Graft has diminished to an extent' hitherto unknown in Russia.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2402, 6 March 1915, Page 7
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81GRAFT IN RUSSIA Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2402, 6 March 1915, Page 7
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