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...only had the Finns ended, for the time being at least, Russia's threat to cut their country in two, but small bands of them were pushing toward the Leningrad-Murminsk railway in several places, making real their own threat to cut Russia's supply lines to the north...
...grimly seated in the Diplomatic Gallery, and afterward he strongly remonstrated with Count Ciano; but all the same, secret negotiations began. Last week M. François-Poncet was back from Paris with these reputed offers: 1) Djibouti, the French Red Sea terminus of Italian Ethiopia's only railway, to be leased to Italy for 90 years; 2) Italy to be allowed to purchase an increased share in the closely held stock of the Suez Canal Co. to insure lower rates for Italian shipping through the Canal, main water route to Ethiopia; 3) Italians in French Tunisia...
Less than 24 hours later, on a single-track line north of Lake Constance, a passenger and a freight train collided headon, killing 52, injuring 40. Railway officials in Markdorf and Klustern, between which towns the trains were running blamed faulty signals, were arrested nevertheless...
These were the seventh and eighth railway wrecks in Germany since the war began, bringing the total number of killed to 289, of injured to more than 250. Though no evidence of sabotage was found, rumors spread. A more likely cause, or contributing factor: bad condition of rolling stock and other equipment, which has not been properly repaired or replaced during Germany's five-year rush to rearm...
...railway car was full of germs and heat...