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Rescuers had to Smash Glass Shutters
Thirty passengers were injured - three of them seriously - when an express double decker bus from panadura ran off the road into the Methodist College Premises at kollupitiya. The three passengers in a serious condition were M.Y.M Muthamy, M. Seya...
The Times of Ceylon Press
The scene when two buses collided on a bridge near Izmir, Turkey and one of them crashed through the stone parapet and the front wheels hung hundred of feet above the roadway. A woman in a panic with a baby in her arm jumped from the bus they were...
Keystone Press Agency Ltd.
"What a diabolical thing to happen" was the comment of a dry lipped old man when he saw this scene. He was not referring however to the fate suffered by the bonnet -flattened Borgward but to the barrels of arrack with which he lorry was loaded.
Ceylon Daily Mirror
Bus Crashed head-on to a Wall at De Soysa
Most of the passengers in this bus plying on the Moratuwa-Piliyandala route sustained sever injuries when this bus crashed head-on to a wall at De Soysa Road, Moratuwa. The boutique by the side of the road was reduced to smithereens.
The Times of Ceylon Press
This is the van which crashed at "Yakabokkuwa" (devil's culvert), between Maho and Ambanpola on New Year's eve. Due to the impact, the driver and the passengers were thrown into the stream below. Six of the passenger are still in the hospital.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Hazardous daily trip for Breakers' men. Cable line to stranded warship. Penzance, Eng: Swinging over the sullen, heavy waves pounding incessantly on the Cornish rocks is a slender cable- life-line of workmen dismantling the hulk of the battleship ...
The Times of Ceylon Press
The Beached Tug 'Gusty' at Millwall
Three boats in Thames collision -men leap from sinking tug. Two men were rescued from the River Thames off Greenwich Pier, London, after a motor-ship, a pleasure-boat and a tug had been involved in collision. The tug "Gusty" was towing a spirit ba...
The Times of Ceylon Press
'Silvertein' and Submarine 'Stickleback'
The "Silverstein" maneuvering alongside the U.S. Submarine "Stickleback", to rescue the 74 men and eight officers, after the two ships had collided in 1,500 fathoms, 19 miles outside Pearl Harbour. The Stickleback was partly under water when the "...
The Times of Ceylon Press
French Liner on fire. The massed fire Brigades of Le Havre were today fighting a blaze on the luxury liner Paris. The vessel eventually capsized and sank. IGP.- Photo shows: An aerial view of the burning liner which is seen keeling over slightly.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Stretcher bearers making slow progress through the wrecked main drive to recover the remains of several victims found a few minutes earlier by search parties.
The Times of Ceylon Press