LENIN COUNTED OUT

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLIII, Issue 9836, 2 April 1923, Page 5

LENIN COUNTED OUT

ALREADY MENTALLY DEAD

DEATHBED SCENES.

PREPARING FOR PURGATORY.

(Per Press Association, Copyright., (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, March 31. HELSINGFORS, March 30.

Reports from Moscow state that Lenin is sinking. The paralysis of his right arm is spreading. Trotsky proposes to establish a military dictatorship after Lenin’s death.

The “Daily Mail’s” Moscow correspondent says Lenin is already mentally dead. His right side, an arm, and a leg are completely paralysed, and.his tongue partially so.

A German specialist believes the severing of a small artery in his neck at the time of Lenin’s attempted assassination deprived his brain of its due flow of blood and led to the fatal results now accruing. All agree that he will not participate in public life

again. The Soviet authorities keep secret the place where their leader is dying. His sister acts as his nurse.

Lenin’s wife, an ex-Siberian convict, is a fanatical Communist. She served a five years’ sentence on a charge of attempting to establish a system under which the Russian youth would abandon Christianity and be trained as militant athiests.

On the other hand, Lenin’s sister is a Christian. She has arranged for masses for the repose of her brother’s soul after his death.

PENALTIES ON PRIESTS.

INTERESTING RETORT,

A QUIP FOR LABOURITES.

(Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, March 31.

The “Daily Telegraph’s” Moscow corespondent states that the commutation of the death sentence was granted to Archbishop Zepliak lest the Catholics should regard the penalties as directed against priests and religion generally; but Budevitch used his status as a priest to participate in counter revolutionary plots. The Soviet newspapers, in justifying the sentences, recent foregn interference and declare the Anglican Church, which formerly executed Roman Catholics, has no right to protest, while British labour leaders who dine with a king cannot be seriously regarded.