DEATH OF LENIN

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 19, 23 January 1924, Page 7

DEATH OF LENIN

REPORTED FROM MOSCOW.

(DSITBD PRESS ASSOCUTIOH.—COPIRIGHT.)^

(RBCTZIt'S TELIGBAM.)

(Received 23rd January, noon.) The death of Lenin^s announced.

On 31st March of last year the Moscow correspondent of the " Daily Mail" announced that Lenin was mentally dead. At that time his right side, arm, and leg were completely and his tongue partly paralysed. A German specialist believed that the severing of a small artery in the neck at the time of the attempted ' assassination deprived the brain of its due flow of blood, and fatal results were now accruing. All agreedthat he would not participate in public life again. The Soviet authorities kept secret the place where the leader was dying, his wife and sister acting as nurses. His wife, an ex-Siberian convict, is a fanatical Communist; who served a sentence of five years on a charge of attempting to establish a-sys-tem whereby the Russian youth would abandon Christianity and be trained to be militant atheists. On the other hand, Lenin's sister is a Christian, and arranged for Masses for the repose of his soul after death.