ANOTHER RAIL SMASH.
Seventy Killed, 100 Hurt
Near Berlin.
' HITLER TAKES PRECAUTIOUS.
(Beeeived 1 p.m.)
LONDON, December 22. It in reported from Berlin that a train crash occurred at 1 a.m., when the Berlln-Neunkirchen express crashed at full speed into the Berlin-Cologne express, which was standing at the station. Both trains were packed, and, besides 70 killed, 100 were injured. This was the worst of eight* train crashes in Germany since October, in which 183 have been killed and 257 injured. Hitler is alarmed at the number of smashes, and has ordered a new crashproof railway coach for his personal use. This has been rigorously tested by Storm Troopers sitting in it while a goods train was hurled into it at 50 miles an hour. The coach was derailed, but the occupants are claimed to have been only shaken.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 303, 23 December 1939, Page 10
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139ANOTHER RAIL SMASH. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 303, 23 December 1939, Page 10
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