RUSSIAN CORRUPTION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 26, 15 September 1911, Page 2

RUSSIAN CORRUPTION.

AMAZING CHARGES AGAINST OFFICIALS.

The “trial of the G 6,” as it is popularly called, reveals an astonishing state of corruption in tire Moscow Supply Department of the Russian Army. Of the members of the Moscow' Intendancy between 1904 and 1910, two generals, twenty-one colonels, and twenty-eight captains, besides four councillors of State, are charged with systematic extortion, dishonesty,, and. bribetaking. The majority of, .the ’ accused are in uniform and wear various orders and decorations. The sums alleged to have been illicitly obtained by them range downwards from £27,000, which is said to have been the share of one of the members of the receiving committee of the Intendancy. It is calculated that one firm alone in the course of twenty-five yeaps has paid £2,000,000 in bribes to the members of the,i Moscow Supply Department. | u ! I One of the counts of the indictment is that the department accepted from the (SontractoV.s, boots, of, ,s.uch, wrefehed quality that the soldiers could not wear them and sold them for what they would fetch. The' boots eventually found their way back to the ..(jpntractors, who delivered them again do the department. The soldiers were obliged to sell their food in order to procure boots for themselves. It js declared that clerks in the department deliberately spoiled the samples of any firm which did not give them bribes.