LATE SOVIET DICTATOR
RUSSIA MOURNS FOR LENIN
THOUSANDS TAKE THEIR LAST LOOK.
(DNITBD PMSi ASSOCIATION.—COPIRIOBT.) (AVSIBAMAN-NIW ZEALAND CABLS ASSOCIATION) LONDON, 25th January.The "Daily Express" Moscow correspondent says:—
"1 went at 4 o'clock in the morning to see the body of Lenin. Red soldiers kept silence by discipline, whispering- directions' to ■ people to keep moving and give the others a chance.
"Factory workers and peasant women, who hnd been waiting and shivering all night, walked past in lines of three with arms linfied, viewing the calm face of the dead leader in his gluss-eovered -'coffin.
"At the corners of the coffin were four columns draped with evergreen and red, giving the illusion that Jvenin was sleeping, in a four-post bed. The guard of, soldiers and civilian watchers stood as rigid as stone. "The crowd thinned at 5 o'clock, but swelled later, until in the afternoon there was a black mass of humanity waiting in the snow."
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 22, 26 January 1924, Page 7
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