THE DEAD LENIN.

Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 22, 26 January 1924, Page 7

THE DEAD LENIN.

PEOPLE PAY TRIBUTE. SOLEMN RITES IN LENINGRAD. LONDON, January 25. The Moscow correspondent of the "Daily Express" writes: "I went at four o'clock tliis morning to sec the body of Lenin. Red Soldiers kept silent discipline, whispering directions to the people to keep moving and give others a chance. Factory workers and peasant women, who had been waiting shivering all night, walked past in lines of threes with arms linked, viewing the calm face of their dead leader in the glass-covered coffin. At the corners of the coffin were four columns draped with evergreens and red, giving the illusion of Lenin sleeping in a four-post bed*. The guard, soldiers, and civilian watches stood rigid as stone. The crowd thinned at fie o'clock, but swelled later, until in the afternoon there was a black mass of humanity waiting in the snow. Dr. Scmashko. who attended a postmortem examination, states that Lenin's train was of about normal weight, hut the convolutions showed remarkable intelligence and will-power. Petrograd's Soviet decided to rename the city Leningrad.— (A. and N.Z.) BRITISH CONDOLENCES. TRADE UNION CONGRESS. LONDON, .Tanuary 25. The council of -the Trades Union Congross telegraphed condolences to the Russian Soviet commissars upon Lenin's death.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)