GRIEF IN RUSSIA

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 20, 24 January 1924, Page 5

GRIEF IN RUSSIA

jcATH DUE TO EARLY WOUND

AT ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.

, (SIDNBI SDN CAiLB.)" (Received 24th January, 9 a.m.)

LONDON, 23rd January.

The death of Lenin by paralysis of the ..rain was dramatically announced at the anniversary celebrations of the first revolutionary outbreak in Petrograd in 1905 at the BoLshevik Theatre in Moscow. Suddenly strains of the Funeral March were heard, and the Soviet leaders with tears streaming down their faces appeared.

Kalemin, in a broken voice, said:— "Comrades, our Comrade Lenin departed yesterday. All that is left to us is to perpetuate his great teachings."

. The theatre Was filled with groans and women fainted. The Funeral March resumed," mingling' with hysterical cries of grief and weeping.

Lenin's death was actually due to his attempted assassination 11^1918, when he was wounded in the neck, cutting an artery, and causing an insufficiency of blood to flow to the brain. This produced paralysis 'of the right side. Recently he was" helpless and speechless, and in such a pitiable condition that it was expected he would be given an opportunity of signalling whether he deeired the administration of instantaneous poison. '