Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-10
RULE OF THE GRAND DUKES
RUINS CARS ARMY AND NAVY
Grand Duke Nicholas all the High Positions the Army With lat
Salaries Attached Of His Family Although They Have Not
The Remoest knowledge Of the Duties Of Their Exalted

number of men, he will send just half
that amount though the accounts
will show that the regiment
has been served with the regulation
pound of meat per head. The pruning
does not stop there. The other off1cers
take their part in it, and after the COL
onel each officer gets one ounce from
every mans piece of meat In some
regiments. more honest or more eau
tiouS. the officers are satisfied WITH
half an ounce, but neither soldier nor
officer would think the colonel tit for
any place but lnadhouse If he gave
the regimental cooks one pound per
head per, day.
In some regiments this system or
stealing has reached such a pitch that
only nut-sized pieces of meat and a
few bones are thrown into the soup
on sundays and holidays, and on other
days its place is taken by cabbage or
dried peas. No other form OF meat Is
given so that, with n particular un.
scrupulous colonel, the men are mar
starved weak and unable to do their
duties properly.
GRAFT UNLIMITED.
Practically the game thing happens
With their boots, uniforms, blankets
and even With their rifles, horses ana
their fodder The leather out OF Which
their boots are made Is OF an interior
quality solely because one account is
rendered to the way office and another
totally different to the regiment. ne
officers pocket the difference. on very
rare occasions this dishonest way or
adding to his pay gets an ofhcer INTO
an awkward position. Not long ago
the governor OF the Warsaw fortress,
Col. Kasbek, reported that seven politl,
cal prisoners under his charge hau
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daylight after showing forged discharge
sheets signed with his name and sealed
with his seal The forgery was done 50
spIeudidly that even the clerks lnelhe
office We're deceived by the documents
and gave tine prisoners every laciiits
to get out The incident, which Moulu
have caused n tremendous sensation IN
am, other country. was husiied up, and
the newspapers We're allowed 70 give
onlv n very bare account of 1t. In these
accounts il was said that Jewish FAC
Tor had snuggied the discharge sheets
into the fortress and brihed the Euaru,
by means of brandy and cigarettes, 70
give them 10 the prisoners. but the true
Version of the AFFAIR is much more start
,ines ond sensa tional The colonel used
to arrange with the factor to supply the
fortress with hay and oats Il was
Inc Jewish Factors practise to denver
lust half the amount that Inquired on the
hills incidentally the colonel secretly
rocketed several thousands OF roupleS
a year with which he used TO traNel 10
Paris and the south OF France every
winter.
one day the factor, whose name was
B;rnbauni. made an unexpected CAL
upon the colonel.
A FACTORS STRATEGY.
II have to ask you favor, he SAID
bl,mtlv. seven Socialists, who hap
t.sn to belong to the same political par
~ as myseif. are imprisoned IN your
fortress The court martial probably
will sentence them to death. | want
Van 10 give me seven discharge sheets,
duly signed and alad. which VIII see
are delivered to them. The! eXpia natioii
| will be that we Socialists nave lossest.
your signature.
Al first the colonel waXed Indignant
and roared mt Birnbaum to leaE,a tne
place nj once. But the factor stood ms
ground
made up my mind to persuade you IN
| another way. II l have not these dls-
charge sheets within an hour shall
| send in our corn and hay accounts %
| headauartel.s. by which they can see az
a glance that YOU have defrauded the
government Of 100000 roubles' tsioV'
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The colonel list no time in furnishing
| the factor 18th the discharge sheets
which today. are looked upon as ems
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