34 KILLED; 150 INJURED

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25734, 21 February 1949, Page 7

34 KILLED; 150 INJURED

FRENCH RAILWAY * COLLISION SEARCH FOR BODIES IN WRECKAGE (Rec. 9 p.m.) PARIS. February 19. Thirty-four persons were killed and 150 others injured whe.n the MetzDijon express collided With a single locomotive near Vesoul late last night. The first two coaches of the express were hurled off the line. Twenty persons pinned beneath the wreckage could not be moved until heavy rescue gear had arrived. Cranes lifted the smashed carriages. The search for bodies among the debris is still continuing. ) A student engineer, who was driving the locomotive which collided with the express, has been arrested. TRIAL OF CARDINAL BRITISH PROTESTANT SOCIETY’S VIEW (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, February 19. The Protestant Truth Society has sent to Mr Attlee and all members of the British Cabinet a resolution criticising the British Government’s attitude towards the trial of Cardinal Mindszenty. The resolution said that world attention had been centred on the trial “largely through the intensive propaganda of the Vatican, which sought to befog the issue.” It said: “The clash of these two great tyrannical dictator* ships—the Kremlin and the Vatican —both with unsavoury records for seeking to dominate those within their power, should have justified our Government in holding aloof.” USE OF FORGERIES DENIED (Rec. 7 p.m.) BUDAPEST, Feb. 18. An official Hungarian communique denies that forged documents were used in the Mindszenty trial. It adds: “The stories circulated by Laszlo and Hanna Sulner, the hand-writing experts, are a pure invention and swindle. Their only purpose is to make money. Mrs Sulner has done occasional work for the Budapest court, but she had nothing to do with the Mindszenty case.”