GOODS TRAIN WRECKED.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20037, 19 September 1930, Page 11

GOODS TRAIN WRECKED.

RAILWAY LINE TAMPERED WITH. ATTEMPT ON INDIAN EXPRESS FAILS. (UNITED PEE3S ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTIUC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (Received September 18th, 9.46 p.m.) DELHI, September 18. An attempt to derail an express train from Delhi to Calcutta, near Karchara, failed. A goods train which preceded it was derailed, and u\e engine and twelve waggons were tele- I scoped. The crew escaped injury. A large section of the permanent way was tampered with, the rails being placed upside down, and fish-plates and bolts removed. PUNJAB MUNICIPALITIES. ALLEGATIONS OF CORRUPTION. DELHI, September 17. . A Punjab Government report scathingly criticises the. general administration of the muniipalitios of Punjab, particularly Lahore, Rawalpindi, and Ainbala. The report refers to corruption and systematic frauds in every department in Lahore, while Ambala members are alleged to be always actuated by pergonal communal motives, seldom taking a broad and liberal view of their civic duties. THE NORTH-WEST FRONTIER. ——-—* PRAISE FOR DEFENCE FORCES. (BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.) RUGBY, September 17. The situation in tho North-West Province in [ndia has greatly improved. In particular the menace caused by the concentration of hostile ' tribesmen on the western border of Kurrag Valley has been removed, and the Government of India has sent a me sage to Mr S. E. Pears, Chief Commissioner of the Frontier Province, expressing appro iation of the services rendered by those concerned in the defensive operations, including the officers and men of the regular forces, and the military and Royal Air Force, the members of the political staff of the Kurrag Agency, and the inhabitants of the valley, for the manner in which, their duties were performed in the face of difficulty and danger. A special word is given to the village levies, who gallantlv co-operated with tho Crown forces One year's revenue has been remitted to the inhabitants, of tho valley, and a gratuity of one month's p-iy given to all ranks engaged in the defensive operations.