CATCHING A TRAIN
Remarkable scenes were witnessed in Paris recently when a large number of passengers at the Gare baint JDazaro were unable to find room in the tram to Dieppe and other places m Normandy. . After attempting to storm the tram, which was already tightly packed with passengers, the indignant would-be holiday makers, deciding that it they could not leave Paris nobody _else should, swarmed along the platform and sat down on the lino m front or the engine. , ~, , The station master ordered the people off the track, but they sat tight, ihe engine made terrifying noises, whistling, and lotting off steam. Still they remained on the rails. Appeals to their better nature by the station master proved in vain, 4 . , (u despair the station master sent for the police, but their services wore nob required. 3'ho railway company, conceding tbo justice of the passive resisters’ demands, decided to run another train.
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Evening Star, Issue 21518, 16 September 1933, Page 4
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153CATCHING A TRAIN Evening Star, Issue 21518, 16 September 1933, Page 4
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