UNFORTUNATE COLLISION.
BIEFUGEE TMN 1 TEI/E!SC?OPBD.
A- FRIB^OH^RIBXJTE.
TO WORK OF .BRITISH
ENftINEEiS.
THE! .QUALITY OF tXUB! TROOPS, BOULOGNE, October 2U The collision: is ooinfirmed. A goods traintelescoped a Belgian refugee train. Many of -the victims were'children. • French newspapers pay a, tribute to the -work of British, &%ineera in, repairing an important tailvray bridge which the ©nemy. .^destroyed'* during the retreat., • . ■ . ■ Trains were able to -ercxs3 srithfri tihree qreekfe. . : :.- '■•••■ . Am.iirble- slab placed on tilie bridge, inscribed "Elnglifeh ■lirejiaiecr,?> 19]4." _ <Sir D. Haig m <a -letter to a friend in. Englaaid, says w e Skd' the hardest time ..buit, nothing ia oui- histotiy sut"--.passed l, the- soMierly qnsaliiyj' of tliai troopis. ■ ■ ••/. -.. '■ ■. ' ■ .:; ■;.
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Thames Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14430, 23 October 1914, Page 4
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110UNFORTUNATE COLLISION. Thames Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14430, 23 October 1914, Page 4
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