Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-06-29
EMPEROR NOT AFRAID 0f 4 REVOLUTION An Official Denial is Given to the Rumor That He is Leaving
 Peterhof GEN PLESK0S RETIREMENT. Due to Private Consideration Col Lermentoff is to Be His
 Successor.

the emperor ana court are leaving Peterhof and returning to Tsarskoe- Selo, owing to the discovery of rev. olutionary plot among the palace ser wants. The report is officially ac- counted for by rumors following the retirement of General Plesko, the commandant at Peterhof, and the ap- pointment of Colonel Lermentoff, commander of the imperial regiment of Uhlans, as his successor. The for mer's retirement is stated to be due to purely private considerations, but several officers of his staff are indig nant at the promotion of Colonel Lermentoff over their heads and have asked to be relieved, giving rise to the report of the discovery of a revo- lutionary plot. While the official ex- plantations are regarded with sus- picion, as 1t is beyond question that the terrorists and revolutionists are constantly attempting to gain foot hold in the palace, there is no cause to doubt the truth of the official statement that the court has no in tention of returning to Tsarskoe- Selo this summer. Peterhof, in reali- ty, is much safer for the imperial family than Tsarskoe-Selo. being To- cated on a gulf, enabling the i'm perial yacht to be moored at wharf 200 yards from the palace, always available to convey the emperor and his family to Finland or some other place of security. There is an elabo- rate system of wireless telegraphy connecting the palace at Peterhof with the fortress of Cronstadt, Vii bor and Helsingfors and with the warships in the gulf, thus insuring his majesty against being cut of from the outside world, as he was during the telegraph operators strike last fall. Since the revelations that disloyalty had invaded even
 his majesty's own" regiment (the Preobrajensky regiment of the guards), it is asserted here that noth- ing would be surprising. General Trepoff. commander of the palace, has redoubled his precautions for the emperor's safety. The garrison at Peterhof has been strengthened by a guard of Circassians and the detach- ment of Cossacks about the palace has been doubled. The servants at the palace, as heretofore. are the emperor's faithful Mamelukes and Tartars, some of whom do not speak the Russian language. The Russian servants are confined for the time being to tried lackeys and valets, and among this the terrorists have frequently boasted that they had spies. Newsboys carrying sacks are forbidden to enter the grounds or the old palace, to which the public Is admitted, and no one is allowed within the walls surrounding the grounds of the small palace, where the imperial family resides. without A permit. Secret police by the hun dreds, in civilian clothes, throng the parks and streets. The emperor never drives out beyond the grounds of the small palace and the members of the court are practically prisoners within its walls. The principal amusement is tennis. but all the GUS tomary gaiety of court life has van ished.
 The crushing blow inflicted on the emperor by the discovery Of disaf- lection in his favorite regiment, the Preobrajensky regiment or lire guards. as shown by its adoption of resolutions recently upholding all the actions of parliament and an nouncing that the men wanted no more police duty entailing the say ing of brothevs or fathers. has so ar fected his majesty that he mas or dered the name of the disloyai hrst battalion to be stricken from the roll of the imperial guards. In addition the soldiers and officers of the battai- ion have been deprived forever oi the special rights enjoyed by guards. men and hereafter the battalion will he designated ''the special infantry battalion"
 The general stan no longer con ceals It's fear that the morale or the entire army is profoundly shaken and that with parliament championine
 the cause of the mutireers m eacn instance as 1t arises the first big test
 may find troops lined up as tne French guards did two days before the Bastile fell on the side Of the people and against the monarchy.
 The SIoyo today says that the troubles in the army have routed the reactionary court camarila and have precipitated definite decision moi only to dissolve parliament. but to dismiss the Goremykin cabinet and that in the meantime the emperor has directed the ministers to reply
 to all interpellations in parliament. Count witte. from his self-imposed exile abroad. has dispatched several urgent teiegrams emphasizing the necessity of putting stop to tne anti-Jevish outbreaks. the impression n.rsefHa Unr16 nIr