UNHAPPY RUSSIA.
CABLE NEWS. CMIED TRESS ASSOCIATION.—BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. —COPYRIGHT
OFFICIAL CORRUPTION. THE AVAR CRIPPLING TRADE. LONDON, June 21. Gross instances of official Uus.iaa corruption continue to come to light. *.rtiltcrv ot the latest pattern nas been molted and sold. The Red Cross Society’s boxes of supplies were also found to havo been filled with bricks and stones. . . , "Tlio Times’ says tho war is seriously crimding Rushan trade. Hundreds ol thousands less tons of traffic were carried on the railways during May compared with the same mouth last year. There arc 60,000 railway hands and 350,000 factory hands idle, and the unemployed arc increasing at the rate of 3000 daily. HEAD OF DEPARTMENT COMMITS SUICIDE. (Received June 22, 11.30 p.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, Juno 22. When the frauds in connection wit It the melting and calc of Russian artillery wore discovered, the head of the department concerned iu the disclosures committed suicide.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 5310, 23 June 1904, Page 5
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