Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-30
CAR FEARS REVOLT

Disaffecton in the Army Said to Have
| Caused the Gar Much Anxiety
Report That Emperor Is Leaving Pc
| terhof is Denied.
| ST. Petersburg, June 30.--An official
! denial is given to the report that the
emperor and court are leaving Peterhof
| and returning to Tsarskoe-Selo owing
| to the discovery of a revolutionary
| plot among the palace servants. The
report is officially accounted for by
| rumors following the retirement of
General Plesko, the commander at Pc
terhof, and the appointment of Colonel
! Lermentof, commander of the imperial
regiment of Uhans, as his successor.
| The formers retirement is stated to
be due purely TO private considerations
but several officers Of the staff are in
dignant at the promotion of Colonel
Lermentoff over their heads, and have
asked to be relieved. This gave rise to
| the report of the discovery of revo-
lutionary plot. While the official ex-
| pianationa are regarded with suspic-
ion, as it is beyond question that the
terrorists and revolutionists are con-
stantly attempting to gain a foothold
| i'll the palace, there is no cause to
doubt the truth Of the official state
| ment that the court has no intention OF
| returning to Tsarskoe- Selo this sum-
mer.
Guarding Palace.
Peterhof In reality is much safer for
| the imperial family than Tsarskoe-Se-
To- being located on gulf. enabling the
imperial yacht to be moored at
wharf 200 yards from the palace, al
ways available to convey the emperor
and his family to Finland or some 9TH
er place of security. There is an elab-
crate system of wireless telegraphy
connecting the palace at Peterhof with
the fortresses of Cronstadt, Viborg and
Helsingfors, and with the warships in
the gulf, thus insuring the emperor
against being cut off from the outside
world as he was during the telegraph
operators strike last fall.
Since the revelations that disloyalty
had invaded even His Majcsty's Own
regiment tthe Proeboajensky regiment
Of the guards). it is asserted here that
nothing would be surprising. General
Trepoff. commander of the palace who
is personally charged with protecting
the safety of the emperor's person, has
redoubled his precautions. The garri- j
son at Peterhof has been strengthened
by guard of Circassians, and the de-
tachment Of Cossacks about the palace
has been doubled. i
The servants at the palace as here
tcfore, are the emperor's faithful Tar
tGrs, some of whom do not speak the
Russian language. These servants are
confined for the time being to tried
lackeys and Wallets, but among these
the terrorists have frequently boosted
that they had spies. Newsboys car
rying sacks are forbidden to enter the
grounds Of the old palace, to which the
public is admitted, and no one is al
lowed within the walls surrounding the
grounds of the small palace where
the imperial family resides, without
permit Secret police by the hum
dred 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 customary gaity of
court life has vanished.
Fear tho Army.
The general staff no longer conceals |
its fear that the morals of the entire |
army is profoundly shaken and that |
with parliament championing the cause
of the mutineers in each instance as
it arises the first big test may find the
troops line up as the French guards did
two days before the bastile fell, on |
the side Of the people and against the
monarchy.
The Slovo yesterday said that the
troubles in the army have routed the
reactionary court camarilla and have
precipitated a definite decision not
only to not dissolve parliament but to
dismiss the Goremykin cabinet, and in
the meantime the emperor has directed
the ministers to reply all interpella
tons in parliament.
Witte Friend Of Jews.
Count WHITE, from his self imposed
exile abroad has dispatched several
urgent kilograms here emphasizing the
necessity of putting stop to the anti
Jewish outbreaks, the impression of
which has seriously affected Russia's
credit abroad.
The Bourse Gazette reports an out
break of mutinous spirit among the
Grenadiers Of the guard.
The Nasha Shisn Our Time) was
again confiscated yesterday. This is
the liberal newspaper whose writer's
in January, 1905. were incarcerated in
the fortress of st. Peter and st. Paul,
and which was confscated in October
of the same year, and again in April
last for expressing it's views on the
Russian loan.