RUSSIA.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14857, 3 September 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

DEATH OF LENIN.

ASSASSIN'S FATAL BULLET,

lAustralian and N*.Z. Cable Association . t - '■' ■ ■

London, Sept 1

Lenin, is dead,

DETAILS OF THE AFFAIR

SHOTS FIRED BY WOMEN!

(Australian and N.Z. Gable Association)

Amsterdam, Sept. 1. «

A Moscow message states tliat Lenin, after addressing a meeting of labourers, was stopped by two women, who discussed the recent decrees regarding the importing; of foodstuffs to Moscow.

During the interview a you,ng girl of ; the intellectual class fired, three shots, j wounding Lenin in the shoulder and lungs1. The girl was arrested; She declared that was a Social Revolutionary. ' Another account says that the shots were fired by two women, Social Revolutionaries.