LENIN ILL

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 130, 5 June 1922, Page 7

LENIN ILL

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(0«l*«b PRUeS A^OCIAtION.—<C6PJf.!3;IT.) (AUSTRAhAn - NEW ZEAbANi)'CABLE ASSOCIATION,? . ■ BERLIN, 4th June. Tfe Lokalanzei^er stAtes that Lenin is dying of cerebral.Jiemorrha^e. Other reports state _thftb fib is alreaidy dead. Th«" Soviet tepresentatives at Berlin admit tiiat Lenin is critically ill. Litvinoff and Radek have been summoned by wireless message to returA to Moscow. [Denin has been reported in bad health seVenil tinieS lately, the usual explanation being that a bullet in his shoulder was causing trouble. The Wound was inflicted 'by. a would-be assassin. A recent London paper publa&hed tho following Berlin telegram: "It is announced that. Professor Bbrchardt, the eminent German surgeon, has l>een-called to Moscow to operate on Lenin. It is, how«yer, added that the • operation is a slight dnbj with the object of removing the bullet of i3ora Kaplan, -which still remain* in Lenin's shoulder; and, though no serious incoiivenien.ee, nevertheless to some degree contributes toaggravate the nervaiia ■exhaustion at present troubling him. It is not very conrplimentu.vy to Bussian surgeons that a German colleague has .been brought all the way from Berlin for this operation. The paper announcing Professor Borohardt's commission regdtyls it as an indication of an impi'ovement in tho BobheVik leader's health that the operation luis been decided oil."] , ,