Saboteurs Wreck Another Train In France
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Received Thursday, 11.10 a.m. PARIS, Dec. 3. French railway sabotage cost.20 ! lives today when a train travelling I from Paris to Arras at high speed ; was wrecked. The line was severed by saboteurs near Arras. Forty persons were injured. After the Finance Minister, M. Rene Mayer, had announced the smash in the Assembly, Communist deputies turned to deputies on the Right side of the House and shouted: "It is you who are the mui'derers." One Rightist deputy shouted back: "Those who did this are on your side." After M. Herriot had established order, the Assembly paid homage to the dead. There were no serious casualties in four other derailmenlM today. The Paris-Rouen mail train left the rails at Svon after leaving the capital. Several sleeper bolts had been removed.
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 December 1947, Page 5
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