LATE RUSSIAN LEADER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 930, 31 January 1924, Page 6

LATE RUSSIAN LEADER.

HONOURING LENIN. Received January 30, 11.5 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 29. The Times’s Riga correspondent, describing Lenin’s funeral, says that it lusted seven hours, although tho building in which the body lay was only five minutes’ walk from the temporary mausoleum in which it was buried. Simultaneously with the lowering of the body into the grave factory syrens throughout Russia sounded for three minutes and traffic ceased for five minutes. The German Ambassador placed on the coffin a white flowered and ribboned wreath. The Congress of the Union of Soviet Republics, which is at present sitting at Moscow, passed a resolution that the body be preserved in a glass lidded coffin, which would be accessible to visitors as long as possible. Lenin’s heart and brain have been placed in a special urn for preservation in tho Lenin Institute till a gluzed coffin is made and a permanent vault in tho mausoleum built. Lenin lies in a red draped ouken coffin within a four-windowed wooden structure, lit by electricity. Petrogracl has been definitely re-named Leningrad. It has been resolved to erect monuments to Lenin in Moscow, Leningrad Kharkoff, Minsk, Tifiis, Tashkent and elsewhere. It has also been decided to publish and distribute millions of copies of Lenin’s selected works in many languages, especially Oriental. The Postal Department is issuing special memorial stamps bearing Lenin's portrait.—-Times.