BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1924, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

LENIN’S FUNERAL

THE NKW I.ESI\r:IUD. [Rkbteiis Tekecihams.] (Received this day at 11.2.5 a.ni l LONDON, dan. 21). The “Times’ ” Riga correspondent describing Lenin’s funeral says it lasted seven hours, although the building in which the body lay was only live ihinutes walk from the temeporarv mausoleum in which it was buried. Simultaneously with the lowering of the body into the grave, factory sirens throughout Russia sounded for three minutes and traffic ceased tor five minutes. The German ambassador placed on the coffin a white flowered ribboned wreath. The Congress of Union of Soviet Republics which at present is sitting at Moscow", passed a resolution that the body he preserved in a glass lidded coffin, which would he accessible to visitors as long as possible. Lenin’s heart and brain have been placed in a special urn for preservation in the Lenin Institute. Till a glazed coffin is made and a permanent vault is built, Lenin lies in a red draped oaken coffin within a four windowed wooden structure lit b\ electricity. . Potrognid has been definitely renamed Leningrad. U has been resolved to erect monuments to Leinn m Moscow, Leningrad. Kliarkoll, Mniss. Titlis Tashkent, and elsewhere. It has been decided to publish and distribute millions of copies of Lomu’s selected works in many languages, especially Oriental. The postal department ‘is issuing special memorial stamps, bearing Lenin’s portrait.

DOCKERS’ STRIKE THREAT LONDON, Jan. 29. Following the railways settlement, a dockers’ strike is now threatened he National Delegates' Conference of th Transport Workers' Union was held > London 10-dav. and it was decided instruct the members to strike on > February in all parts of Great Lutain. unless meantime a satisfnctoi. settlement of the- wages dispute was '- r reached. Dockers demand an increase or 2s per day with n gauaranteed wee, » work on pay, in order to meet the problem of casual labour. Employers say they cannot afford to pay the increase! demanded, which would cast two millions sterling per annum. I hey show j there is a depression in the s nppi'V imlustry.