1941-05-06 — Page 29

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 6, 1941.

SHE WAS

LATE

GOT G.M.

P

With coal gas escaping from a broken main, wreckage falling all around, and German raiders raining down bombs in the light of flares, an eighteen-year- old assistant nurse went to the rescue of a youth | hanging upside down by his ankles in a bombed house.

She crawled into a narrow hole to comfort him, stayed with him for over an hour until his release though several times nearly over- come by gas, and then gave first ald.

Now this heroine of the Southampton blitz, Miss Mary Sible Joyce Newman, of Mag- oolla Road, Bitterne, Southamp. ton has been awarded the George Medal.

Helped Father, Son

She was off duty when the ombing began, but immediately

- went out to help. A bomb struck

two houses,

In one the four occupants were killed outright, Nurse Newman at-

· tended to the injuries of a man blown through the front door of the other house, then went to the aid of the tranped youth, his son, i

ged nineteen,

And when it was all over the the eighteen-year-old nurac suddenly realised she was late for duty at her hospita'. She hurried there with a note from A.R.P. official to explain

an

why.

Later she said: "Tu» gas made me feel sleepy. Once one of the re- scue squod ira ut my toe and woke me up.

"I didn't feel the effects much until the next afternoon-and and then, well talk about delay. ed action!"

Other George Medals have been awarded to Works Superintendent Owen Edward Parsloe and Leader Walter Thomas Field, of Bromley A.R.P., and Constable John Eus- tace Cyril Hayman, City of Lun- don Police.

STOCK EXCHANGE QUIETLY FIRM

Exchange

a

few

officer and four Australian The 1st Battalion of Ethioplan troops led by an Austra jan N.C.O.'s entered Abyssinia fully armed and trained to fight for their country against the Italians. Thousands of camels loaded with ammunition and stores were poured into the country. Photo shows native bearers, soldiers and the British leaders of the column, resting in the bed of a

river.

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