TRAIN DERAILMENT IN JAPAN

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25227, 4 July 1947, Page 9

TRAIN DERAILMENT IN JAPAN

[Official N.Z. Correspondent with J-Force.j CHOFU, July 2. Twelve Japanese were killed and 53 injured yesterday afternoon, when a south-bound civilian train was derailed in the New Zealand occupation area between Hikari and Kudamatsu. There was no military coach attached to the train, and no Allied personnel were involved. The cause of the accident, which occurred about four miles from the barracks of a detachment of the New Zealand Divisional Cavalry at Hikari, is not as yet known, as all members of the train crew were killed or seriously injured.

Mr D. I. Macdonald in England.— Mr D. I. Macdonald, secretary of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation, who has been in Geneva for the last three months as adviser to the New Zealand delegation to the Interi.ational Trade Conference, has returned to England. He intends to spend six to eight weeks in England, and to investigate factory conditions, production methods and supply of materials. —London, July 3. Anti-Communist Regulation.—Shipowners of the Canadian Great Lakes announced to-day that union officials boarding their ships in future must sign an affidavit that they are not members of the Communist Party and would not advocate or support Communist ideas and principles while on the ships.—Montreal, July 2.