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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY
23 1924.
DEATH OF LENIN
RUSSIA'S - RUTHLESS RULER:
HISTORIC FIGURE PASSES.
"ONLY TRUE DISCIPLE OF MARX."
LONDON, January, 22,
The Russian Telegraph Agency in London announces that Lenia died suddenly at Moscow yesterday.
Remarkable Career.
LATER.
A Soviet communiqué states that Lenin died in the hills near Moscow. His health had recently considerably improved, but his condition suddenly worsened yesterday evening. He lost, con- sciousness and died from paralysis of the respiratory centres.
The all-Russian Congress of Soviets now sitting at Moscow will take the necessary decisions to continue Lenin's work, The Soviet Government stands firm at its post, watchful over the con- quests of the proletarian revolu- tion." Lenin's body will lie in state at Moscow till the funeral on January, 26.
a leader of men. He was certainly by far the greatest intellectual force!
the Russian revolution brought to light." His creed was Born at Simbirsk, was a hereditary get forth in his book. The Suto moble, son of a state concillor, and Révolution," published 1920, in His mother bad smull estate in the, which he attempted to justify lum Kazan government, and after her sell as the only true disciple of Karl husband's death was in receipt of a Marx. He regarded the stats as a elate peusion. After completing Bourgeois conception: an instru- course in the Simbirsk gymnasian,ment for exploiting the oppressed Lenin entered Kazan University, classes. He opposed the anarchist but was expelled for participating desire, to abolish the state without in an anti-government students having anything to put in its place;! riot. In 1887 his brother Alexander by abolishing capitalism, destroy- was axented for complicity in ploting class differences, the "pro- against the life of Alexander 11. leterian state or weni-state withers In 1891, Lenip attended law and away after the revolution." He economic ellasses in Petrognal was opposed to violence, but admit
Four years later he teed that violence was necessary to University, went to Germany. On his netura niere Communism. The tri- in the same year I was arrested for tion stage he described as "the his Socialistic activities, and exiled Dictatorship of the Proletariat." for three yours to Subenskoe, in He shows binesif cold, pitiless. Eastern Siberin, being forbidden on and devoid of all sentiment, and expiration of his sentence to reside rubblesavin attempting to force the in any of the large cities, factory narrow tenets of his Marisian centres, or university towns of degen upon Russia and the whole
A British Labour delega Russia. Released in 1900, he; world. again went abroad, and for the next tion. who visited Russia in 1920, seventeen years was a Socialist returned unconvinced, being per leader. He appeared in Petrograd ended ist Lenin was hopelessly in October, 1917, and with Trotsky misinformed as to British labour brought about the fall of Kerensky conditions. About the same time a In the chaos that followed Lonia letter addressed by Lenin to British Lreame the most powerful man in workers was published. In it be Russia. Jenin has been described confessed that there was no Com- as "short of stature, rather plump. munist party in Britain, and that = with short, thick neck, broad many of the delegates who visited shoulders, round red fore, high in Russia were hostile to the Soviet tellectuni iprebend, bald head, nose system. Ha suggested that a re- slightly tuned
brownish, volution should be engineered for moustiche and short stubby beard the purpose of putting his theories more like a provincial grocer than to tie tees.
Vladimir Hitch limor Lenin, which
up,
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The case in which a district watchman named Tsol Ping was charged with having demanded money by menaces from a brothel keeper ended at the criminal -sessions, yesterday afternoon in the prisoner being pronounced guilty and sent to jail by the Chief Justice for three years with hard labour. His Lordship said. A man of the prisoner's class was a pest 10. society and that he would certainly award the maximum penalty,
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