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SABOTAGE IN INDIA
CALCUTTA, l!)tl» Jinn*. Past acts of sabotage are recalled by a daring attempt in the early hours of the morning of 14th duly to wreck India’s principal long-distance train, the Punjab mail, at Durma, a wayside station 285 miles north of Calcutta. Two hours before the mail was due, the statiomnaster telephoned the next station, saying that he had heard some noises on the line a short distance from the station and that lie suspected tampering. The statiomnaster at Rtirliee station advised pulling up the express before it reached the station—normally, it does not stop at Dumra. On inspection, a rail was found to lie removed within a few yards of a culvert. 'The express was pulled up only *25 yards from the spot where the damage had been done.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 27 July 1929, Page 2
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135PLOT DISCOVERED Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 27 July 1929, Page 2
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