DEATH OF LENIN

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXI, Issue 22, 24 January 1924, Page 5

DEATH OF LENIN

ILL-HEALTH AT THE LAST.

KAMINOFF TO SUCCEED. ;

(Sun Cables.) (Received 9.5 a.m.)

London, January 23

The Daily Maif states C at Lenii’s third stroke affected big lungs, and he was unable to walk for eighteen months. His death does not affect the present regime. Karainoff will probably succeed Lenin. DEATH FROM PARALYSIS. CONGRESS CONTINUES HIS WORK. (Reuter Service.) (Received 9.40 a.m.) London, January 23. A Soviet communique states that Lenin died on the hills near Moscow. His health had recently considerably improved, but his condition suddenly grew worse. He lost consciousness and died of paralysis of the respiratory centres. An All-Russian Congress of Soviets is now sitting at Moscow to make the necessary decisions to continue Lenin’s work.

The Soviet Government stands firm in its post of watchfulness over the conquests secured by the proletarian revolution.

TROTSKY AND HIS COLLEAGUES!;

DISCORD IN THE RANKS.

PARTY COLLAPSE PREDICTED.

(The Times). (Received 9.40 a.m.) London, January 23. The Times’ Riga correspondent says; Many rumours are current concerning Trotsky. On the one hand, it is declared that although the Soviet doctors ordered a change of climate, he is still in Moscow. His other colleagues are unwilling to let Trotsky out of sight and are keeping him confined in ids house under strict supervision. It hag been impossible go far to verify the rumours. In the prevailing atmosphere nothing seems improbaole. The Triumvirate, Stalin, Karneneff, and Zinovicff, daily assert that the recent controversies served to cement the Communist Party, which are now more united than ever. This, however, is untrue. Discord is even more serious than it has beep, represented, and it may he su’d confidently that tho disintegrating has begun, which will result in the total collapse of the Party. The end will probably ho only a matter of months.

DRAMATIC ANNOUNCEMENT.

SOVIET LEADERS IN TEARS.

(Sun Gables.) (Received 10.15 a.m.) v '' Lonclon, January 23

Tire death of L niu from paralysis of tlie" brain was dramatically announced at the anniversary celebrations of the first revolutionary outbreak at Petrograd in 1905, which were held in the /Bolshevik Tlieatre in Moscow. Suddenly the strains of the Funeral march were heard and the Soviet I venders, with tears streaming down their faces, appeared. Kalemin, in a broken voice, said: “Comrades, our Lenin departed yesterday. All that is left to us to do is to perpetuate h v . greas teachings.”

lire theatre filled with groans and women fainted. The Thmera! march wag resumed, mingling with hysterical cries of grief and weeping.

Lenin’s death is actually due to an attempted assassination in 1918, when he was wounded in the neck, an artery being cut and causing insufficiency of blood supply to the brain, producing paralysis of the right side. Recently Lenin has been helpless and speechless and in such a pitiable condition that he was expected to be given an opportunity of signalling whether he desired the administration of instantaneous poison.

.■iv. AMERICAN TRIBUTES. |WashiiUgton', January 22. I The . White' House spokesman, said that i t Preiijdeht ■’Cobliflgel hvß^ s i^ Lenin’s workwillf’someliow iftlssia 'and ViiCliSation// Tho-'PreSi-, no 'change in‘-' Russian policy) towards "the ‘United 1 Statesy as therresult' of Lenin’s death, ;wheiefor the United 1 States’ policy • would be; unchanged. However, officialdom in Washington will ■unanimously regret Lollin' 8 passing,' "believing -that Russia will probably revere : the man for his innate honesty 4uuU sincerity int'a siihifar■ manner to that 'bf#meriba’s Lincoln''tradition, i •' )g *' J-, Senator Borah rsiiid that had, Lenin lived, Eussjiia, diytwo.or three ye;ap, would - have returned to a sound economic'footing and restored complete relationships with other countries. While Lenin made great mistakes, ho also made great progress.

Senator Ladd, who visited Russia last summer, said that Russia had lojst her best friend, who worked in tile highest interests of the people.

Mr Oliarles Smith, a member of tho American Railway Commission s Russian survey, said that Lenin s death would make no differerce. There were many good men in Russia and there was no fear of disruption. Colonel Husked, chief of the

iiipr the' Russian famine, said that nothing would prevent Russia's drift to capitalism, whither Lenin him-