TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.
PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT St. Petersburg, Nov.‘3o. The Czar has sanctioned twelve heart as a day’s work, including two for meals, for all workmen in industrial establishmeats.
ROBBING THE STARVING PEASANTS. ;
MINISTER FIERCELY ASSAILED,
PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT . Received 4,55 p.m., December 2. St. Petersburg, Deo. 1;
M. Goatko, assistant Minister of the Interior, who is a son of the famous Russian general of that name, has been fiercely assailed in connection with a contract alleged to havq been given foie many millions of roubles to the proprietor Of gambling houses for the supply of etarv« iog peasants with bread. M. Gonrko is alleged to have acted under the infiuenoa of a dressmaker, giving the contract to Lidvai, a proprietor of gambling tables, not connected in any way with the grain business. It is stated that he merely pocketed the commission, and that Boltk's, the aotnal purchaser, has disappeared, The Czar has appointed a committee consisting of senators and others, inolnding the president of the St. Petersburg bourse, (0 make instant inquiry.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1948, 3 December 1906, Page 2
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