RAILWAY DISASTER
ORIENT EXPRESS CASUALTIES
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).
BUCHAREST, October 28
Forty-five are known to be dead through the Orient express smash, though it is variously reported that there still are corpses in the debris. More than fifty were seriously injured.
A POLITICIAN GENERALISES
LONDON, October 28
-Mr J. H. Thomas, M.P., addressing railwaymen at Norwich, said that it was useless to burk the fact that the recent railway accidents had revealed that the human element sometimes fails. A temporary lapse by man was a direct cause of accidents. There had been an unprecedented number of railway disasters. It would he madness to disguise the seriousness of the position. Yet statistics showed that the British railways were the freest from accidents in the world. JCvery week t-liere were more killed oil the roads than in the combined railway accidents for a whole year. He said that, making all allowance for temporary lapses, do not let them get info a panic, and condemn the railways and their managements wholesale. It appeared that the railways had struck a bad patch.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 October 1928, Page 5
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180RAILWAY DISASTER Hokitika Guardian, 30 October 1928, Page 5
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