FRENCH TRAINS
MANY ACCIDENTS INVEST IG ATION DEMANDED. Press Association—By Telegraph— Copyright PARIS, August 16. When an express from the fashionable resort of Deauville reached Nantes the last coach, containing many English persons, was discovered to be on fire owing to the overheating of the axle. The coach was taken off in tho nick of time, and the passengers were transferred.—A. and N.Z. Cable. PUBLIC ALARMED. PARIS, August. ](’». After twelve railway accidents iu eighteen days, with a toll of thirtythreo persons killed and 190 injured, it is not surprising that tho travelling public is alarmed and is demanding a thorough investigation of the whole system of signalling, tho types of carnages on third class trains, and as to tho advisability of continuing the system of gas-lighting of some of the trains. The Minister of Public Works has already made recommendations to the Government as the result of incpiiries into the recent disaster.—A. and N.Z. Cable,
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Evening Star, Issue 19022, 18 August 1925, Page 5
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