The Archive · 1911

Siberian Railway Scandals

the Berliner Tageblatt"

The St. Petersburg correspondent of searching the Siberian railroad has beet claded. Senator Gliechstechi stated, received 90,000 compl the administration of the loss to the State is estimated at 20,000,000 roubles (over £2,000,000), biler officials are declared to have received several millions in bribes. It has been found that buadreds of thousands of tons of gonds have been transported without haviog been booked in apy way, the carriage fees ha been pocketed by members of staff. At the same time wages have been drawn for some thousands of employees, who in reality have only deck 223 existed on paper, It is alleged that the chief officials at Tomek systematically appropriated the most valuable goods for their own use, and entered them as "missing." Grave charges of corraption sre made against the coal-mines on the Siberian railroad route, It asserted that only about half the ce booked was actually delivered, ti contractors dividing the spoil with the railwaymen. Prosecation on a whole-tale scale will follow.

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