Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-30
CRUSHING BLOW.
Disaffection Of the Cars
Favorite Regiment,
General Staff Fears Morale Of
Entire Army Is Shaken.



st. Petersburg, June 29.-The crush
ing blow inflicted on the Emperor by
the discovery Of disaffection in his fav-
orite regiment, the Probrajensky Regi-
ment Of Life Guards, as shown by its
adoption Of resolutions recently up
holding all the actions Of Parliament
and announcing that the men wanted
no more police duty entailing the STAY
ing Of brothers or fathers. has go af-
fected His Majesty that he has order
ed the name of the disloyal first bat
Italian to be stricken from the roll OF
the Imperial Guards. In addition, the
soldiers and officers of the battalion
have been deprived forever of the spec
fal rights enjoyed by guardsmen and
hereafter the battalion will be desigra-
ted ."the special infantry battalion"
The general staff no longer conceals
itsfear that the morale 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
troops lined up as the French Guards
did two days before the Bastile fell,
on TIE Slue VI Tue peopic diio dSohiSS
the monarchy.
The Slovo today says that the trouble
in the army has routed the rAactionary
court camarilla and have precipitated
q definite decision not only to dissolve
Parliament, but to dismiss the Goremy-
kin cabinet and that in the meantime
the Emperor has directed the ministers
to reply to ell interpretations in Parlia-
ment.
Count Wittle, from his self-imposed
exile abroad, has despatched several
urgent kilograms here emphasizing the
necessity Of putting a stop to the anti
Jewish outbreaks. the impression Of
which on the outside world has SER
iously affected Russia credit.
The peasants of the province of Niz-
hny Novgorod are not only annexing
the land of the gentry, but are taking
portions of the land Of the well-to-do
peasants.
Property in the vicinity of Samara,
valued at about s250,0O0. has been de-
stroycd by the peasants during the past
month.
An official denial is given Of the re-
port that the Emperor and court are
leaving Peterhof and returning to
Tsarskee-Selo, owing to the discovery
of a revolutionary plot among the pal
ace servants. The report is officially
accounted for by rumors following the
retirement of General Plesko, the COM
mandant at Peterhof and the appoint
ment Of Col Lermentoff commander of
the imperial regiment of Uhlans, as his
successor The formers retirement is
RI tn n.
siderations, but several officers of his
staff are indignant at the promotion of
Col. Lermentcff over their heads and
have asked to be relieved, giving rise
to the report of the discover of a rev.
dictionary plot.
While the official explanations are re-
garded with suspicion. as it is beyond
question that the terrOriSts AMI rcvo-
lutionists are contantly attempting to
gain a foothOld in the place, there is no
caue to doubt the truth Of the official
statement that jhe court has no inten-
ton Of returning to Tsarskoe-Selo, be-
ing located on gulf, enabling the i'm
perfal yacht to be mOored at a wharf
200 yards from the palace. always avail
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 elaborate system Of wire
less telegraphy connection the palace at
Peterhoff with the fortress of Cron-
stadt, Viborg and Helsingfors and with
the warships in the gulf. thus ensuring
His Majesty against being cut off from
the outside world as he was during the
telegraph operators strike last fall
Since the revelation that disloyalty had
invaded even His Majesty's Own" reg
iment, 1.-The Probrajensky Regiment Of
the Guard" it is asserted here that
nothing will be surprising.
Gen. Trepoff, commander of the gar
rison, 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 pal
ace, as heretofore, are the Enlperor's
faithful Mamelukes and Tartars, some
of whom do not speak the Russian Ian
guage The Russian servants are con-
fined for the time being to tried lackeys
and Wallets, but among these terrorists
have frequently boosted that they had
spies. Newsboys carrying sacks are
forbidden to enter the grounds of the
old palace, to which the public is ad-
mitted, and no one is allowed within
the walls surrounding the grounds OF
the small palace. where the Imperial
family resides. without permit.
Secret police by the hundreds, in ci-
yjlian clothes, throng the parks ana
streets. The Emperor never drives out
hevond the grounds of the small palace.
and the members Of the court are prac-
t,ca,lv prisoners within the walls. Tn
principal amusement is tennis pu' an
The customary gayety Of court life has
vanished.
LECTURE TO REGIMENT.