THE DEAD LEADER

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 103, 26 January 1924, Page 7

THE DEAD LEADER

RUSSIAN PEOPLES’ SILENT TRIBUTE CROWDS VIEW THE BODY /(Rec. January 25, 8.35 p.m.) London, January 25. The Moscow correspondent of the “Daily Express” says: “I went M 4 o’clock in the morning to see the boov 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, arms .linked, viewing the calm face of the dead leader m a glass-covered coffin. At the comers of the coffin were four columns draped with evergreen and red. giving the illusion that Lenin was sleeping in a four-post bed. The guard of rold ers and civilian watchers stood as rigid as stone. Tiro crowd thinned at 5 o’clock, but swelled later, until in the afternoon there was a b'-mk ma.== of humanity waiting in the snow.” —Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. REMARKABLE INTELLIGENCE AND WILL POWER SHOWN BY LENIN’S BRAIN (Rec. January 25, 8.35 p.m.) t London, January 25. Dr. Semashko, who attended a postmortem examination of body, states that Lenin’s brain was about the normal weight, but the convolutions showed remarkable intelligence and will power. Petrograd’s Soviet lias decided to rename the city Leningrad.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. CONDOLENCES OF BRITISH TRADE UNION CONGRESS (Rec. January 25, 5.5 p.m.) London, January 25. The Council of the Trade Union Congress has telegraphed condolences to the Russian Commissars upon Lenin’s death. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.