THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 1, 1940.
BROTHERS WED DAUGHTER OF SAVE FAMILY
Two factory workers, Frederick Tomkinson and his brother, Stan- cy, saved the lives of their mother, father, four sisters and eleven-year-old brother, trapped in their blazing home at Waldron's Moor Manor, King's Heath, Birmingham.
All the family were sleeping when Fredcrick awoke to find moke pouring into his bedroom.
" awakened my brother cald, Stanley," he
"and
we Knotted four blankets together and lowered to the ground our eleven-year-old brother who sleeps in our room.
"By this time mother, father and our sisters were at the two other bedroom windows. We coiled the blanket rope and threw it into mother's room. Father fixed it and he and she got down. More blankets were knotted, and we rushed round to our sisters' room in the front of the house.
"They caught the blankets we throw up to them and all four
made a safe descent."
·REPLACEMENT OF
NISHIHARA
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A BARONET
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