Show SPREAD OF mm 31 sold ers selected to guard the czar present petitions protesting against use of troops for police purposes st petersburg the most alarm ing indication of the spread ot the disaffection in the army extending even to regiments near the person of the emperor was given in the arrest at selo on thursday ot a number of soldiers belonging to the yellow cuirassiers of the guard the hussars of the guard and the lite guard riflemen for presenting a se nes of petitions including one against the use of troops for police purposes the regiments in question are those which have been specially selected by general to guard the cm geror and his family they have been counted upon as being loyal to the last ready even to be torn to pieces in defense of his majesty like the swiss guards of louis XVI the arrest although not tor open sedition shows how the leaven of discontent s working even within the precincts of the imperial park at Tsar selo the incident gave rise to most alarming rumors in st petersburg in eluding one to the effect that the em geror actually had been attacked and that a grand duke had been wounded while defending himself |