LENIN'S FUNERAL.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 17985, 31 January 1924, Page 9

LENIN'S FUNERAL.

LASTED SEVEN HOURS. (bi cable—peess association: ctymuoro.) ("*HI3 BUM.") LONDON, January 29. Tho Riga correspondent of "Tup Times/' describing Lenin's funeral, says that it lasted eoven hours, although tho building in which the txxly lay was only five minutes' walk from tho temporary mausoleum in which it was buried. Simultaneously with the lowering of the body into the grave, factory sirens throughout Rusaia sounded for three minutes, and traffic ceased for five minutes. ' The German Ambassador placed on tho coffin a white-flowered and whiteribboned wreath. The Congress of the Union of Soviet Republics, which is at present sitting at Moscow, passed a resolution that the body should be preserved in a glasslidded coffin, whfcli would be accessible to visitors as long as p'ossible. Lenin's heart and brain have been placed ir. a Bpecial urn for preservation in the Lenin Institute till a glazed coffin hsis been made and a permanent vault in the mausoleum built. Lenin lies in a red-draped oaken coffin, within a foiir-windowed wooden structure, ht by electricity. Petrograd has been definitely renamed Leningrad.

It has been resolved to erect monuments to Lenin in Moscow, Leningrad, Kharkoff, Minsk, Tiflis, Tashkent, and elsewhere. It also has' been decided to -publish and distribute millions of .copies of Lenin's selected works in many languages, especially the Oriental language. • Tho Postal Department is issuing special memorial stamps, Bearing Levin's portrait. * CONVICT MOURNERS. (StDHEI "Sin*" Sebvick.) MOSCOW, January 28. "Father Lenin, forgive our frauds and robberies of the poor" was the in scription on a wreath which a party of convicts deposited on the dead leader's mausoleum, after which they marched back to gaol, accompanied by batches of political prisoners singing the "Internationale."