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SCALDED FIREMAN SAVED
LONDON, Dec. 1
A • British merchant ship had been mined. • All the crew had left the sinking Vessel except the captain and the chief officer and an injured Mohaminedan fireman who had been severely scalded. Everyone imagined the Mohammedan had been killed, but just as the captain and officer were about to leave the ship lie climbed out of the engine-room.
The two uninjured men gave him the one lifebelt remaining, and as the ship sank they swam with him between them. It was hard work, but the captain and the officer kept on for nearly a mile until they were picked up. This, comments Mr. Arthur Moe, famous London editor, was the sort ol thing only gentlemen would do. and the sort of thing gentlemen could not help doing.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20660, 10 January 1942, Page 7
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