1937-12-11 — Page 7

CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 11, 1937-

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EXPRESS DISASTER

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Thirty-Four Passengers Believed Among Dead

STORM RAGING AS TERRIBLE SMASH OCCURS

London, To-day.

Thirty-four passengers are believed to have lost their lives yesterday when the Edinburgh- Glasgow express crashed into the rear of a station- ary passenger train from Dundee on the L.NER, at Castlecary, near Falkirk, in Stirlingshire.

A storm was raging when the tragic smash oc- curred, and terrible scenes were enacted after the engine of the express had been thrown down the embankment. Two of the coaches were telescoped and literally smashed to smithereens.

JAPAN, CHINA AND GERMANY

Berlin, To-day.

News that the Japanese Ca- binet will not recognise General Chiang Kai-shek's Government after fall of Nanking, is published in Berlin without comment.

It is reliably understood that. the German Government is not likely to follow the Japanese ex- ample-Reater.

pending outcome

rates case.

of the freight

The Chief Executive expressed the opinion that the Inter-State

The only official estimate of the death-roll so far gives 24 kilied, but two more bodies were ex-Commerce Commission should ori- tricated from the tangled mass of wreckage, and the final toll will, it is believed, exceed 34.

It was the worst railway dis- aster in Britain since 1915.

Villagers rushed to the scene to help in aiding the injured, and found ghastly scenes as dead and injured passengers lay in wreck- ed carriage apartments and in the snow beside the line.

Buses were requisitioned to take the injured to hospital, and impro- vised stretchers, were used pending the arrival of ambulances, which were rushed across the snowbound country from nearby towns.

WRECKAGE SET ON FIRE

Passengers on the express are of reported to include a number

Cameron Highlanders on Christmas leave from Catterick.

The wreckage was set on fire to provide light for the rescuers.

A survivor said that before the crash he saw a man running on the line, waving a lamp and evidently trying to stop the train-Renter.

1.G.P. TO HAVE TITLE OF

The President Hoover which went aground off the south of Formosz last night.

U.S. RAILWAYS

MAY BE TAKEN

COMMISSIONER OVER BY THE

OF POLICE

For the second time within a few years, the title of the officer in charge of the Police Department is to be changed.

Under the terms of a draft bill in the Gazette, the title of the Inspector-General of Police will be changed to

Commissioner of Police

The title of Deputy Inspecto General will be changed to

Deputy Commissioner

The title of Police Probationer will be changed to

-Police Cadet

The principal office was known until a few years ago as Captain Superintendent of Police

Mr. G. Perdue will probably be Hong Kong's first police officer to bear the title of Commissioner of Police as the Hon. Mr T H King is pro

on leave,

GOVERNMENT

Washington. To-day. -President Roosevelt declared at

a press conference yesterday that while he wanted to avoid Govern- ment ownership of railways, steps must be taken to adjust their financial condition.

The President

reminded his hearers that reat receiverships could not continue without such steps, and therefore he desired prompt decision on the freight rates question.

He revealed that he had discuss ed the matter of loans, but they would be sm

would be made

temporarily

a few railways-

inate a plan to preserve solvency.

private management and ownership of railways.Reuter

UNCOMPLETED A.A. GUN LEFT TO MUSEUM

Capetown, To-day. The late Major B. F. Baden-Powell, brother of the Chief Scout, left an uncompleted invention

of his to the Pretoria Museum

It is a model of a new type anti- aircraft gun, on which he had been working for ten years be- fore his death.

The gun was based on the prin- ciple of firing by centrifugal

force, with no smoke, no noise and no flash. Reuter

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