ESCAPE OF M. HERRIOT
BOMB WRECKS RAILWAY
PLATELAYER STOPS TRAFFIC
PARIS. Nov. 20
Prior to the passage of a heavily-laden slow train preceding that taking the French Prime Minister, M. Herriot, to Nantes for the Franco-Breton unity commemoration service, a bomb explosion wrecked both tracks at Ingrandesur-
Loire. . , A platelayer heard the explosion and topped traffic. Wreckers are believed to have been responsible for the outrage. M. Herriot was warmly congratulated upon his escape.
M. Herriot's present term of office .as Prime Minister dates from May of tins vear He first became Prime Minister in May* 1924, but- his Government was /k----feated the following Cabmet of a dav was formed in July, 1926, and m. Herriot then joined M. eminent ot National Union. Ho.no. forced to resign from this Ministry in IMB.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21346, 22 November 1932, Page 9
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