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FRENCH RAIL COLLISION PARIS, August 22. Three were killed, six badly in-jured,-and 58 slightly injured when the Lyons-Strasbourg express collided with a goods train, says the Associated Press Mont Beliard correspondent. FRENCH CHOIR EARNING ON TRAVELS LONDON, Aug. 22. A choir of 23 girls and 14 men from Lyons University, France, on an “earn as you travel” visit to Britain, sang French folk songs in Leicester Square and made a collection from the large Sunday crowd. They collected £5O when they sang at Brighton. LIBERATION DAY IN FRANCE PARIS, Aug. 22. Torch-bearers carried, the “flame of liberation” in pouring rain from the Unknown Warrior’s grave under the Arc de Triomphe to Stalingrad place in a ceremony marking the fourth anniversary of the liberation. The Paris celebrations will culminate on August 25. which is Liberation Day. ‘
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Grey River Argus, 24 August 1948, Page 8
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