Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-06-29
Since The Revelation That DlSlOyaliy
Had Invaded Even His MaIssiy'S
Own Regiment II is Asserted
That Nothing Would bs
Surprising,
PRECAUTIONS ARE REDOUBLEB
Lermentoff Is Appointed Com-l
mander at Peterhof.
GARRISON IS GREATLY STRENGTHENED
Associated Pres Dispatches BY Special wires

Associated Pres Dispatches BY Special Wires
ST. Petersburg, Russia, June 29.-An
official denial is given OF the report that
the Emperor and court are leaving Peter
hoi ndreturning 10 Isarskoycselo owing
90 the discovery OF a revolutionary plot
among the palace servants. The report
m officially accounted for by rumora
following the retirement OF Gen. Plesko,
the oommandant at pcterhoi, and the
appointment OF Col lementof, CONF
mander Of the imperial regiment Of
Ohlans, as his successor. The formers
retirement Is stated 90 be due purely to
private considerations but several officers
Of his staff arc indignant at the promo
ton of Col. Lermentofi over their beads
and have asked TO bo relieved This.
gave rise 10 the report OF the discovey-of
q revolutionary plot.
While tho official c-panation is 70.
garded with suspicion, rs IL Is beyond
question that the rcrronsts and Rcvo-
lutonists are constantly attempting TO
gain a iOothold In the palace, there Is no
cause 30 doubt the truth of the official
statement that the court has no inten-
tion OF returning 20 Isarskoyoselo this
summer. Peterhoi in reality, ia much
saie1ior thetmperiol family than IsadSo-'
yeselo, being located on a gulf enabling
the imperial yacht TO be moored az q
wharf 200 yards from the palace, always
available TO convey the Emperor and his
family TO Finland or some other place Of
security An elaborate system Of wire
less telegraphy connects tho palace at
Peterhof with the fortressoa OF Cron-
atadt, Niborg and Hclsingfon and with
the waships in the gulf, thus insuring
the Emperor against being cut off again
/ from the outside world, as he wns during
/ the telegraph operators strike of last
/ fall. Since the revelation that dis
/ loyalty had invaded, even His Majosty's
own regiment (he Proohmjensky rogi-
ment OF the guards) II Is asserted here
that nothing would be surprising.
Gen. Tcpof. commander Of the palace
/ who is personally charged with protecting
the safety of the Empcror's person, has
/ redoubed his precautions. The gar
rison at Pcterhof has been strengthened
/ by a guard of Cuirassiers, and the de-
| tachment of Cossacks about tho palace
has been doubled. Tho servants at the
palace, as heretofore, are the Emperors 5
faithful Mamalukea and Iartars, some
OF whom do not speak the Russian lan-
/ guagc Tho Russian servants are con-
fined for the time being 70 tried lackeys
and Wallets, but among these the Ter
rorists frequently have boasted that they
had spies. Newsboys carrying sacks are
forbidden 10 enter the grounds Of the old
| palace, TO which the public is admitted,
and no one is allowed within the walls
surrounding the grounds Of tho small
| palace, where the imperial family re-
sides, without q permit. Secret police
by the hundreds, in civilian clothes.
throng the parks and streets The Em-
peror never drives out beyond the ground
of the small palace, and the members of
the court are practically prisoners within
It's walls. The principal amusement is
tennis, but all the customary gaiety of
court life has vanished.
The Boune Gazette today reports an
outbreak of mutinous spirit among the
Grenadiers of the guard.
The Nasha Shisn (Our Iimol was again
conhscated today. This is the Liberal
newspaper whose writers in January
1905 were incarceated ia the fortress
of 81. Peter and St. Paul and which was
conhscatod In October Of the same yeal
and again in April last ior expressing IL.
views on the Russian loan.
Moscow Russia, June % Special dis
patches TO the RussSay Slave say that
two regiments no lelizabethpoi have
refused to fire on the strikers
Niinii-Novgorod Russia, June 20
The peasants Of this province are not onl,
anncxing the land Of the gentry, but ar
taking portions Of the land Of the well-to
do peasants.
Samara, Russia, June 29.-Propert,
in this vicinity, valued at about $3.50 ,000
. has been destroyed by the peasants durinl
the last month