CHIVALRY DEAD
STAMPEDES AND OVER-CROWDING (Rec. noon.) SYDNEY, December 24. Already in Sydney, this, the first peace-time Christmas for . seven years, has had two memorable features—record spending and record crowding on trains drastically curtailed by the coal shortage. On 18 trains which would normally carry 6,300 people, 13,000 holiday passengers left Central Station yesterday. Carriages were packed tq the doors four or five hours before the trains were due to leave. While some trains were shunting into the station travellers rushed wildly into carriages. Chivalry was dead; women were buffeted, and children dragged from their parents and lost. Nearly 60,000 passengers have left Central Station since last Thursday ou country and holiday resort trams. Road transport on the main highway out of Sydney has been the heaviest on record.
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Evening Star, Issue 25674, 24 December 1945, Page 5
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129CHIVALRY DEAD Evening Star, Issue 25674, 24 December 1945, Page 5
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