RAILWAY TORN UP
INMAN TRAIN-WRECKERS. EXPRESS STOPPED IN TIME. (Sydnsv "Sun" Cable.) DELHI, March 20. A dastardly attempt to wreck the Punjab mail train while it was passing over the sandy wastes of the Sind Desert : s reported from Karachi. A alow passenger train proceeding in the opposite direction on the other lino dafifiod into a rail disced across the line. Investagation showed that •70 yards of the mail train’s line had keen uprooted, and the rails placed on the opposite line. Urgent distress signals caused the mail to pull up within 100 feet of the breach.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12094, 23 March 1925, Page 8
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