INDIA TRAIN SMASH

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 165, 14 July 1928, Page 9

INDIA TRAIN SMASH

VILE ACCUSATIONS.

Nationalist Paper Says The Injured Were Butchered.

EUROPEANS INDIGNANT.

(Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) M.Ueceived 1 p.m.) DELHI, July 13. There is intense indignation among the Europeans over the publication in the chief Nationalist newspaper, the "Forward," of letters by eye-witnesses alleging that the true death-roll in the railway smash on the outskirts of Calcutta on July 8 has been deliberately concealed.

"The dead and wounded were treated worse than dogs by the relief train," it is alleged. "A party of wounded were searched and killed. Where a cry arose from the wreckage a European came with a light, then there was a sound of heavy blows, and the voice ceased."

The writer offers to prove that the dead numbered more than 300, instead, of 20, as reported. He says the dying were dispatched with rods, and manydead and wounded were conveyed to an unknown destination.

The smash on July 8 was described aa the most serious that has occurred on the East India railways in recent years. It was caused by the derailment of the engine of a train near a culvert. This resulted in the front brake-van and two passenger car* riages being telescoped. According to reports from Calcutta it was definitelyproved that the accident was due to sabotage, as a length of 120 ft to 130 ft of the rails had been removed.