VISIT TO WAR CEMETERY.
i MOTOII-COACH OVERTURNS. SIX PASSENGERS INCINERATED. (UKITED PIIE3S ASSOCIATION—B7 ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (Received August 16tli, 7.30 p.m.) PARIS, August 16. A party of musicians travelling in a motor-coach towards the war cemetery at Douaumont collided with a touring ear. The coach plunged down an embankment and overturned. It took fire, and six passengers, who were pinned underneath, were incinerated. Twelve others were seriously injured.
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20317, 17 August 1931, Page 11
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