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Show "Hsu -lie : BULLETS HISSED ABOUT RUSSIAN GENERAL'S READ Attempt Made to Assassinate Grand Duke Nicholas While He Was Reviewing Re-viewing the Troops. St. Petersburg. (irand Duke Nlch olns Nlcholalcvlteh, president of thn council of national defense, narrowly escaped assassination Snturday at tho hands of tho Imperial guards In tho gunrd camp at Krasnoye-Selo. 1 It appears thnt tho grand duko was personally reviewing tho mnneuvors and putting tho troops through blank firing practice, when ho suddenly was startled by tho wasp-llko hiss of bullets bul-lets about his head. Fortunately nolthor himself nor his horso was touched. Tho command to cease firing fir-ing was Immediately given and the soldiers sol-diers of the regiment from which the bullets camo wero marched back to tholr quarters and an Investigation begun In tho hope of ascertaining from tho barrels of tho rifles which of tho soldiers fired ball cartridges. Sevoral Sev-oral arrests nro understood to havo been made. Ono of tho grand duke's atdos-de-camp, who, however, wns not personally personal-ly present, advanced tho theory thut possibly tho bullets wcro fired by accident, acci-dent, but ho considered that boyond a doubt there was a plot on tho part of a number of disloyal guardsmen who dollborntoly planned to tnko tho grand duko's life under cover of tho goneral blank cnrtrldgo firing. ' |
