RAILWAY SMASHES
A BAD PATCH
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright Australian Presa Association
LONDON, 28th October. . Mr J. H. Thomas, addressing railway men at Norwich, said: "16 is useless burking the fact that recent accidents have revealed that the human element sometimes fails. A temporary lapse by man is the direct cause of accidents. There have been an unprecedented number of railway disasters. It is madness to disguise the seriousness of the position. There is a deal of public apprehension, yet statistics show that British railways "are the freest from accidents in the world. Every week there are more killed on the roads than the combined railway accidents for a whole year. Making all allowance for temporary lapses, don't let us get into a panic' and condemn railway men and managements wholesale. It appears the railways have struck a bad patch.
ORIENT EXPRESS DISASTER
BUCHAREST, 28th October
Forty-five persons are known, to be dead a : s the result of the Orient express smash, though it is variously reported that there are still corpses in the debris. More than fifty were seriously injured.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 30 October 1928, Page 5
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