MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1924, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

LATEST CABLE NEWS

LOCO DRIVERS’ BEQUEST

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Received this dnv at S a.m.) LONDON. Jan. 2

The Executive of the Locomotive r Drivers’ Union lias decided to request the railway managers to arrange a Conference with the object ol .securing a -ottlcinont. LONDON. Jail. 23 (Ibituary.—Baulin, llie Middlesex cricketer. T.NDUSTT! lUN CLOSING DOWN. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 22 The State service, with some exceptions. is better than was antieipalid. There is no reason why the position should not improve. Nevertheless reports from the country show that a creeping paralysis is overtaking the industries. -Many steel and tinplate works, blast furnaces, paper mills, hardware and motor factories are closed owing to a shortage of raw materials. Tile Midland mines are also closing. LENIN’S DEATH'. (“Sydney Sun” Cables). (Received this day at 0.0 a.in.) LONDON, January 23 Tho “Daily Mail” states that Lenin’s third stroke affected his lungs and he was unable to work .for eighteen months. ’Mis death does not affect the present regime. Kamenelf will probably succeed Lenin. LENIN’S WORK. LONDON. January 23. A Soviet communique states that Lenin died on the hills near Moscow. Mis health recently considerably improved, hut his condition suddenly grew worse, lie.lost consciousness and died of paralysis of the respiratory centres. An All Russian Congress of the Soviet is now sitting at .Moscow to make the necessary derisions to con tin no Lenin’s work. ’!©■ Soviet Government. stands linn at its post of watchfulness over the conquests secured by the proletarian revolution. LENIN'S DEATH CAUSES GHTKF. I’ATTI KTIC SCENES IN THEATRE LONDON, Jan. 23. The death of Lenin, from paralysis of tho brain, was dramatically announced tit the anniversary celebrations of the first revolutionary outbreak at Retrograd in RMI.j, which was held in the Bolshevik Theatre in .Moscow. Suddenly the strains of a Imieral march were heard and the Soviet, leaders with tears streaming down their faces appeared. Kalemin, in a. broken voice, said : "Comrades, our Lenin departed yesterday. All that is left to us t:o do is to perpetuate his great teachings.” The theatre was filled with, groans, and women tainted. When the funeral march was resumed, it was mingled with the hysieiical cries of grief and weeeping. Lenin’s death was actually due to the attempted assassination in R'l'when he was wounded in the neck, an artery being cut, causing an insufficiency of the blood supply to the brain, thus producing paralysis ol the right side. Recently Lenin has '■••• u helpless and speechless, and in im.b ’ pitiable condition that he was expect - -I to he given an opportunity to whether he desired the administration of a instantaneous poison. A Iit.!’LANE CRASHES. LONDON, January 23. Tv i curious!) similar crashes oceured in the Lciulou-l’ark. air service. Eou.-get %.c-a, and buret, i-.to flames, the rau-’-.U-t and mails being do.-trcycd, but the passcugeis escaped. A Ereneh aeroplane landing at Crnytien dipped its tail and smashed the under carriage. 'lhe pilot and two passengers, including an Algerian Sheik :u turban and flowing blue robes, jump,.a out. The flames destroyed the aeroplane in ten minutes.