FRENCH TRAIN DISASTER

Taranaki Daily News, 9 June 1930, Page 9

FRENCH TRAIN DISASTER

MAN SUSPECTED OF COMPLICITY. POLICE ARREST COMMUNIST. By Telegraph—Press Assn.— Copyright. Ree. 5.5 p.m. ' Paris, June 7. The police have arrested a young Italian, Bruno Conto, on a charge of complicity in the Montereau train disaster. Conto is well known in Communist circles and was missed from, his usual place of residence for some time. Eight were killed and 13 injured when the Paris-Marseilles express was derailed at Montereau on June 1. Four of the leading coaches of the train were smashed to pieces and rescuers were obliged to saw through the metal roofs to extricate the bodies. The disaster was caused by a- small truck which the Minister of Public Works, after an inquiry, considers deliberately placed on the line. The derailment occurred when the express was travelling at 50 miles an hour. The fact that M. Tardieu was travelling to Dijon caused the early belief that the disaster was due to a desire to wreck the Premier’s train, but as M. Tardieu passed three and a-half hours before the accident the belief that M. Tardieu was the intended victim was abandoned.