RUSSIAN SOVIET

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 104, 28 January 1924, Page 7

RUSSIAN SOVIET

QUEST™ OF DIPLOMATIC RECOGNITION ATTITUDE OF UNITED • STATES By Telegraph—Press Association. —Copyright. (Rec. January 27, 5.5 p.m.) ' Washington, January 25. The resumption by Britain of full diplomatic relations with Russia, in the opinion of President, Coolidge, will have less bearing upon the attitude of the United States towards Russia than will the investigation of Soviet recognition now being conducted by the sub-committee of the Senate Foreign 'Relations Committee, headed by Senator Borah. It is indicated that President Coolidge will not close his eyes to anything developed, by the committee. Tn a statement Senator Borah said: “It may be presumed that for all practical purposes we may regard the recognition of Russia by the English Government as an accomplished fact. It is a statesmanlike, courageous thing to do. and marks a distinct break with the bitterness, hatred, and intolerance of war times. It points to a new moral and spiritual regime.”—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ENSHRINEMENT OF LENIN’S BODY (Rec. January 27, 5.5 p.m.) London, January 26. The Moscow correspondent cf the “Daily Express” says Lenin’s body will be enshrined on Sunday in a deep mausoleum fitted with electric lights and heating apparatus. The coffin will be visible from outside. Here it will remain till its final disposition is decided upon. It is estimated that four hundred thousand people have already viewed the body, despite the cold, which is so intense that men digging on the site of the mausoleum were compelled to use dynamite to break up the ground.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. TRAFFIC TO STOP DURING BURIAL. (Rec. January 28, 0.5 a.m.) London, January 27. The “Sunday Express’s” Moscow correspondent says that at the hour of Lenin’s burial traffic will stop throughout Russia. The Government wireless Station will flash: “Lenin is dead, but his work lives for ever.” Factory whistles will blow and syrens shriek for three minutes. Madame Lenin, who watched for 20 hours, collapsed from fatigue and strain. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. CAUSE OF LENIN’S DEATH (Reo. January 28, 0.20 a.m.) London, January 27. The post mortem examination established the cause of Lenin’s death as arterio-scleriasis of the brain, apparently inherited from his father, who died at the same age from an identical disease. Lenin’s body has been embalmed. Tho diplomatic corps has decided to attend the funeral and to present a joint wreath. —Reuter . EXPULSIONS FROM MOSCOW Riga, January 25. The Soviet Government is expelling 290,000 from Moscow owing to the housing shortage, especially Trotsky’s adherents. Merchants who recently returned to Moscow under Lenin’s new economic policy are being expelled, and the Communists are taking over their houses. Some merchants bribed Communists with £lOO for the use of a single room.—Sydney “Sun” Cable.