FRENCH TRAIN COLLISION.
DRIVER'S STATEMENT. Received June 22, 9.10 a.m. PARIS, June 21. Le Due, driver of the Paris-Gran-ville express, which collided with a slow train at the Vrilepreux station, westward of Versailles, many lives being lost states that the water-feed tube was being choked, and there was dagger of an explosion occurring unless the obstruction was cleared. When engaged in removing it, he missed the warning signal. M. Millerand, Minister for Public Works, admits that when the State* recently acquired the Western Railway, the materials were in a very bad state, hence the defects in con- ) nection with trains on the Villepreux section. He states that the Government has placed large orders with a view to remedying the unsatisfactory state of things,
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10076, 23 June 1910, Page 5
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123FRENCH TRAIN COLLISION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10076, 23 June 1910, Page 5
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