The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-30
DENIAL OF A NEW PLOT Servants of Peterhof Not
 Mutinous. IS SAFER THAN TSARK0E-SEL0 Imperial Yacht Near at Hand for
 Any Emergency. Retirement of PIeskO Declnred to Be Due solely to Private Consid-
 erations-DissatisfactI
 over Successor.

St. Petersburg. June zs-An official denial Is given of the report that the emperor and court are leaving Peter hof and returning to Tsarkoe-Selo, ow- ing to the discovery of q revolutionary plot among the palace servants The report Is officially accounted for by rumors following the retirement of General Plesko. the commandant at Peterhof, and the appointment of Col- onel Larmentoff, commander of the I'm perial Regiment of Uhlans, as his sue cessor. a C.,
 The formers retirement Is said to be due purely to private considerations, but several officers of his stan 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 a revolutionary plot. While the only explanations are regarded with suspl- eion as 1t Is beyond question that the terrorlsts and revolutionists are con- stantly attempting to gain a foothold in the palace, there is no cause to doubt the truth of the official state ment that the court has no intention of returning to Tsarkoe =Selo this sum mer. Peterhof, in reality is much saf- CT for the imperial family than Tsar koe- -Selo, being located on a gulf, en- abling the imperial yacht to be moor ed at a wharf 200 yards from the pal ace, always available to convey the emperor and his family to Finland or some other place of security. There is an elaborate system of wireless teleg- raphy connecting the palace at Peter hof with the fortress and of Cronstadt, Viborg and Helsingfors and with the warships in the gulf. thus insuring the emperor against being again cut off from the outside world. as he was during the telegraph operators strike last fall
 Since the revelations that disIoyalty had invaded even ''his majesty's own regiment (The Preobrajensky regiment of the guards). 1t 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 re-doubled his precautions. The gar rison at Peterhof ses been sirengthen- d by guard of oiReassians, and She detachment of Cossacks abeut the pal ace has been doubled. The servants at the palace, as heretofore, are the emperors faithful Mamelukes and Tar tars, some of whom do not speak the Russian language.
 The Russion servants are confined for the time being to tried lackeys and valets, but among these the terrorists have frequently boasted 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 a permit. Se cret police by the hundreds, 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 praeti- eally prisoners within it's walls The principal amusement Is tennis, but all the customary games of court life have vanished