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♦ RAILWAY CROSSING SMASH IN FRANCE GATES OPENED PREMATURELY TO MOTOR COACHES EIGHT KILLED AND SIX INJURED (Recd This Day, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, April 25. The Paris correspondent of the “Times” says after the passage of the first section of an express the gatekeeper, forgetting' that the second section was due, opened the gates to two motor coaches full of pilgrims from the Lissieux Basilica. The first section crossed safely, but the second' section of the express smashed into the second motor coach, killing eight persons and injuring six. The gatekeeper has been charged with manslaughter.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 April 1938, Page 6
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97TRAGIC ERROR Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 April 1938, Page 6
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