LYING IN STATE

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11737, 26 January 1924, Page 3

LYING IN STATE

. RUSSIA’S DEAD LEADER CROWDS NIGHT-LONG WAIT TO VIEW BODY. GRAPHIC DETAILS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cnble Association (Received January 25, 3.35 p.m.) LONDON. January 25. The “Daily Express’’ Moscow correspondent says:— ‘ I went at four o’clock in the morning to see the body of Lenin. Red soldiers kept silent by discipline, whispering directions to people to keep moving and give the others a chance. “Factory workers and peasant women, who had been waiting and [shivering (i ntehtl .walked past in lines of three with rrms linked, viewing the calm face of the dead leader in hi? glass covered coffin. “At the corners of the coffin were four columns draped with evergreen and red giring the illusion that Lenin was sleeping in a four pest bed. The 'guard of soldiers and civilian watchers stood as rigid as stone. “Tlie crowd thinned at 5 o’clock, but swelled later until the afternoon. There was a black mass of humanity waiting in the snow.”

PETROCRAD RE-NAMED

POST MORTEM’B REVELATIONS. Australian and N,Z Cable Association. (Received January 25, 5.35 p.m.) LONDON, January 25. Dr. Semashko, who attended the post mortem examination, states thaiLenin’s brain was about the normal weight, but its convolutions showed remarkable , intelligence and will power. Petrcgrad’s Soviet has decided to rename the city Leningrad.