GRAFT IN RUSSIA.
WHOLESALE MILITARY ROBBERY. By Cabl*—Pr«ss Association—Copyright Received' 25, 5.5 p.m. St. Petersburg, June 24. The trial is proceeding of two generals, 21' colonels, 28 captains, and four State Councillors, of the Moscow Supply Department, on charges of extortion and bribe-taking. One accused was alleged to have received £27,000. It is calculated that one firm, during 25 years, paid £2,000,000 in bribes as an inducement to the Department to accept 6oldiers' boots of inferior quality. Soldiers sold the boots, which the contractors acquired and re-delivered to the Department. It was also alleged that, clerks deliberately spoiled samples from the firms which did not give bribes.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19110626.2.31
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 1, 26 June 1911, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
107GRAFT IN RUSSIA. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 1, 26 June 1911, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in