LENIN’S TOMB
TEMPORARY ARRANGEMENTS. THOUSANDS VIEW BODY. Australian and N.Z.- Cable Association. (Reoeived January 27, 5,5 p.m.) LONDON, January 26. The “Daily Express” Moscow correspondent says that Lenin’s body will be enshrined on Sunday in a deep mausoleum fitted with electric lights and heating apparatus. The coffin will be visible from outside. Here it will remain till the final disposition is decided upon. It is estimated that 400,000 people already have viewed the body despite the cold, lyliich is so intense that the men digging on the site of the mausoleum were compelled to use dynamite to break up the ground.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11738, 28 January 1924, Page 7
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101LENIN’S TOMB New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11738, 28 January 1924, Page 7
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