Show HISSED ABOUT tiUS SIAK GENERALS attempt made to asnass nate grand duke nicholas while he was review ng the troops st petersburg grand duke nich olas N chola evitch president of the council of national defense narrowly escaped assa s nation saturday at the hands of the imperial guards in the guard camp at krasnove Kra snoye selo it appears that the grand duke was personally reviewing the maneuvers and putting the troops through blank firing practice when he suddenly was startled tart led by the wasp like hiss ot bullets about his head fortunately neither himself nor his horse was touched the command to cease firing was immediately given and the sol diers of the regiment from which the bullets came were marched back to their quarters and an investigation begun in the hope of ascertaining from the barrels of the rifles which of the soldiers fired ball cartridges sev eral arrests are understood to been made one of the grand duke s aides de camp who however was not personal ly present advanced the theory that possibly the bullets were fired by acci dent b it he considered that beyond a doubt there was a plot on the part ot a number of disloyal guardsmen who deliberately planned to take the grand duke s life under cover of the general blank cartridge firing |