Show clE IS HOPELESS S lOF ANY Ai REfORM Corrupt COI Bureaucrats Pay Millions Milo Mil Mu- o lions for Useless Plans to Americans RUSSIANS WERE ROBBED Knew Yankee Was a Traitor Yet Believed Him True to Them nr MALCOLM CLARKE R Republican Special Cable Berlin 1 That That the American Amen Ameri can naval n val architect Lewis Nixon Ixon re received received re- re c several million roubles from flom tho the Russian government for Cor torpedo olpe o boats boals which were absolutely useless Is the statement nt made matIe In a secret ecret r report port of the time controller of or tho ho Tt n Russian silan empire which has just been Ilu published ll hetI Iti in the Berlin Ta Tho TIm paper which which cannot b by any means be classified as a sensational Journal says Eay I In regard to 10 the published publish publIsh- c ed that it has hu every r reason agon to believe IJ it H genuine aJ and 1 n adds ds that in his Inability to put Iut an end to the thefts ofa of ofa ofa a hopelessly corrupt bureaucracy tho the reason relon for tho the czars czar's lad lack of Interest in anything ma may be found The fhe report Indeed shi sh shows how utter utter- 1 I iy helpless s the car is to deal eal with the time problems mH of cleaning the Russian AuJean Augean Au Au- Augean gean Jean stable which more inore than anything else was the cause cause of or tho the a defeats teats of oC the he empire during the lie Ja Japanese anes war i Tile The report shows shw many Incidents of or swindling swin in lit the time various government go I d u p and jl Instance gives names 8 ni J d' figures figures' iI-e iI which ha have havo 0 e cr every appearance of oC being eIng- genuine On On the naval budget t there thero appears appears' regularly enormous expenses s for experiments ex ex- ex- ex ts with apparatus which ha long hong been found faun useless by b all other powers The rho fact tact that the experiments are never ma made c the monc money simply goes Into the tho theo o pockets of officials from grand ran dukes kS k'S down own to heads of d depart depart- part ments Time The he naval depots are arc ar always l ays full fuJi I or of wor worthless bless materials while there there- therIs is hi always s 's less on ii hand han pt pf ral I sarI m materials th official Deports 1 J show shio The report t Incident n l cn Is 19 ot or b CI J x tp t rl- rl e can cans ns In In 9 hr l N f I ordered from Ut the ii c i tor i o R j f lo oril t C imf r S t tho American can received d lar a-lar large c p part rt Qt tie the price contract and od Um t torpedo torp boats oats had hail been iwa's iwas paid three fourths of ot the Uw sum uni sum about rn marks Afterward tho the naval construction bureau declared the torpedo boats ab- ab unfit for fOl us use e. e but Jn In spite of or jf time tho protests t of oC tho Imperial controller an and Major G chief chic of ot the technical bureau of oC the h tia navy nar tho ho boats were accepted and tho full tull paid ot ol Nixon U incident Even en more moio interesting Is s an healing dealing with nn nil order older for or or French ar ar- mol mor On February 24 it l 1904 tho tim mInIster minister min mm- ister of ot war wal convinced the tho czar car of tho the thon n necessity of buying armors for Iho tho Manchurian l army from Crom noun the time French firm CIc Cle But on February 23 23 the da day before row had signed sg the tho contract with the tho firm finn for m marks C Colonel lonel Sal Sal- who was sent to Franco bythe bytho by bytho tho the personal comman command of the time czar to supervise the tho lie work on the contract Immediately latel discovered that tho the whole affair was wag a a. swindle anti and that the factory factory fac fac- tory ton where the armor was to be ma made mado o odid did not exist N Nevertheless the members members mem mom bers hers of oC the firm demanded etl that 1500 marks bo be paid to them by tho the Russian government go before th thy they would start the work worl On April 1 Minister of or War Yar S Sa- Sa charow charo mow know from th the lie reports of or Colonel Col Col- onel each that the tho firm had bad no lie also idea of or making any an delivery knew from the thc reports of tho tIme fiscal agent of oC the tho Russian government go at Paus Pam M. M that II M. I. I did not own any an factory factor and an that his own capital was only between two and three hundred thousand francs but nevertheless tho tIme minister paid out the whole w amount of the contract act to tho the French Fl-ench firm film and not one single ar armor armor ar- ar mor was every delivered to the government gov s-ov- but nothing was sal said about tho matter S Before leaving for his vacation tho thc kaiser r promised his daughter in Crown Princess Cecilie the highest distinction ho ever conferred upon c. c w woman oman During the time summer the time drown crown prince prince- and antI his young wife arc aro to vis visit lt the western provinces of tho the kingdom of Prussia and cro n cro yn princess Is then solemn solemnly to bo be made mado an honorary c colonel lonel o of tho the Eleventh Regiment of Hussan which is stationed at ut Krc- Krc fold feld S. S 5 It was mi-as this regiment which was transferred to the Iho a above o 9 name named cit city of onn gIrls 1119 had after a a delegation young complained to tho ho kaiser that they did ld not get opportunity enough to dance because there was wag no military garrIson In tho lie dt city A month later hater the regiment regi ment a arrIved rived S SA S A sf story Or which shows the time terrible Ig Ig- Ig Ignorance norance and nd inborn ferocity ot of the Russian peasant cornea conies from from tho the city of oC Minsk A A. patient who had escaped from an Insane asylum sought refuge In a peasants peasant's house but because of or hi his strange actions un nip and incoherent speech tho the peasant took him to bo be a a. to spy Art After r trying to make malo him confess cone confess con con- fess e s he tied him naked to tho the tall tail of ofa a I 1 horse an and dragged him 24 miles lillieS to the lie next village where ho was buried I In this Instance Russian Justice was swift however an and this the peas peas- Limit int who vimo believes cs ho lie did tIlli a a. patrIotic patriotic patri patrI- otic act wits wu sent sentenced to eight ht years elrIn In n prison f s' s v |