ALL-NIGHT VIGIL.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 17981, 26 January 1924, Page 13

ALL-NIGHT VIGIL.

BY LENIN'S COFFIN.

THOUSANDS WAIT IN SNOW

(BY CABLE—P2ES3 ASSOCIATION COPT3IGHT.) (AUST3ALIAN iSD I:.;. CABLE ASSOCIATION. (Received January 25ih, 5.15 p- 111 -) LONDON, January 25. Tho Moscow correspondent of the "Ihrily Express" says: —"I "went four o clock this morning to see body of Lenin. Red soldiers k e P r " silent discipline, whispering directions to the people to keep moving and g ive others a chance. ''Factory workers and peasant women, who had waited shivering all night, walked past in lines of threes with arms linked, viewing the calm face of the dead leader in the glass-covered coffin. "At tho corners of the coffin wero four columns draped with evergreen and red, giving the illusion that Lenin was sleeping in a four post bed. '"The guard of soldiers and the civilian watchers stood rigid as stone. "The crowd thinned at five o'clock, but swelled later until, by the afternoon, there was a black mass of humanity waiting in the snow. "Dr. Semashko, who attended tho post-mortem examination, states that Lenin's brain was about the normal weight, but tiie convolutions showed remarkable intelligence and will power."

"LENINGRAD.' 9

PETROGRAD'S NEW NAME,

(AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z- CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

(Received January 25th, 8.15 p.m.) LONDON, January 24. The Petrograd Soviet has decided to rename the city Leningrad. [St. Petersburg became Petrograd at the outbreak of var, when the wave of hostility to Germany and things German was at its height. St. Petersburg took its name from Peter the Great, its founder.]

BRITISH CONDOLENCES

(Received January 25th, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, January 25.

The Council of the British Trade Union Congress telegraphed its condolences to the Russian Commissars upon Lenin's death.