SEVEN LIVES LOST IN BLAZING TRAIN
LONDON, July 6.— Members of a British military escort were among the victims of a train disaster near Kantara, Egypt, states a. Renter's Cairo telegri amA train carrying munitions' and petrol from Kantara to Palestine was m charge of a native driver who is said to have taken, a curve at excessive speed. An explosion of petrol occurred, and the train was ,set on Are, many of the pas- j sengers being Killed or injured. It is reported that seven men were burned to death. ' l
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15303, 26 August 1920, Page 6
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