RUSSIAN TRAIN DISASTER
HEAVY DEATH ROLL. FOUL PLAY ALLEGED. Press Association-—By Telegraph—Copyright. MOSCOW, May 10. (Received May 12, at 10.50 a.m.) Foul play is_ alleged in connection with the derailment of a new train dedicated to Lenin (whose portrait adorned the locomotive) in the neighborhood of Odessa, on its maiden run from Moscow. Many people were killed and injured and tho train ’smashed. Tin; rails apparently had been torn up. It is officially admitted that tho disaster was deliberately engineered. It is believed that it was aimed at tho lives of certain members of tho Soviet who were aboard the train. Thoir names nro not stated. Tho total number of casualties is not given.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18631, 12 May 1924, Page 7
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