RUSSIA'S DEAD LEADER

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 21, 25 January 1924, Page 7

RUSSIA'S DEAD LEADER

BORNE ALONG BY COMRADES

IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY IN MOSCOW.

(UOTHD tKUS ASSOCIATION. COHRIGII.) (AO«I»AUAN-S£W KALAND CAM ABIOCIAIION.J LONDON, 24th January. The -" Daily Express " Moscow correspondent says that an impressive ceremony folio-wed the arrival of Lenin's body. A gun-carriage was ready at the station, but the Commissars and other Communist chiefs insisted on shouldering the coffin. Twenty thousand people joined in a great procession through a four-mile route to the Hall of Trade Unions, while thousands packed the streets looking over the shoulders of thousands of soldiers and police, who'formed an impregnable cordon along the whole route. Frequently the procession halted while the tired bearers were relieved. The coffin had a plate-glass cover, through which Lenm s wan features were "plainly seen. , ■ . Snow was falling, and the temperature was about zero. The public will be admitted to the hall in large numbers to see the face of the dead leader. Representatives of the most important Government bodies and trade unions are standmg by tne coffin in ten-minute watches rchitcherin s watch begins at 3.40 o'clock on Thursday morning. ■ Tchitcbertn, on Wednesday, received representatives.of the foreign Press. He said that it was generally understood tliat L,enm had been inactive in Government affairs for the past year, therefore there was no reason to believe that there would be any change in his policy, which was one of peace and economic reconstruction. That policy would be continued.. ■ '

He added that it had not yet been decided whether the new President of the Council of Commissars will be elected or several executives carry out his work jointly as during the past year

|'M. G. V. Tchitcherin is Russian Commissary for Foreign Affairs.