OCR Text |
Show Ill TREASON mil OPENS Former Russian Minister of War Disclosed Military Secrets Se-crets Direct to Central Powers. PETROGRAD, Aug. 2S. At the trial for high treason of General Soukhom-linoff. Soukhom-linoff. former minister of war. General Ivanoff, former commander in Volhy-nia Volhy-nia and Galicia, testified yesterday ho had information showing that military secrets had been communicated direct di-rect from Petrograd to Germany and I Rustria by way of Warsaw. Genoral Velitchko, deputy director of tho engineer corps, said ho regarded General Soukhomlinoff as having been principally responsible for the defeats of the Russian array. As soon as he was appointed minister minis-ter of war, tho witness testified, ho suppressed various councils created for tho purpose of discussing questions ques-tions of national defense. |