1941-07-11 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY. 11, 1941.

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HELD ROPE BY TEETH: SAVED 2

A SEAMAN HELD on to a rope with his teeth while he supported two drowning men and saved their lives. He has been awarded the Albert Medal.

The hero was Acting Second Hand John Henry Mitchell, R.N.R.

Chief Eng.nemun Wedderburn. ¡till a pilot ladder could be lower- who could not swim, fell into the ed. He made the rope fast round sea between two trawlers in har- Wedderburn, and steadied him as Dour on September 27 last year, he was hauled out.

and became unconscious. An un- known seaman, who jumped in to save him, was soon in difficul- ties.

Mitchell, hearing shouts, clam- bered over a vessel to the quay, ran 100 yards, climbed across two other ships and jumped into the water.

Wedderburn, He seized

who was sinking, by the hair, and held up the other man until a rope was passed down from the trawler. This he secured with a bowling round the

helpless sea. man, using one hand, while he supported both men and him self by gripping the rope with

his teeth.

now

Rescued Unconscious

The seaman was then hauled out of the water by the men in the trawler.

He had been in cold water for thirty-five minutes, and was un- conscious when rescued.

RAID ORPHAN'S STEPFATHER

THE MINISTER OF PENSIONS TIME WHEN VISUALISE THE

BECOME STEP- HE WOULD)

ALL CHILDREN FATHER TO

ORPHANED BY AIR RAIDS,

he said, was as far as possible to keep children in homes or

tions.

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UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES DOWN

A further drop of 67,000 is shown in un- employment returns issued yesterday.

Total unemployed on June 16 was 301,- 000 compared with 368,000

on May 12 and 766,000 on June 17 last year.-Reuter.

FIGHTER,

68, GOES

TO SEA

The policy of his departinent. Irish Jack (Spike) Sul- with livan, ex-prize fighter, relatives rather than in institu- Army captain and film actor, is serving in the Merchant Service at six- ty-eight to get his own back on the Germans.

But the time would come when permanent homes would have to be found for evacuated children; whose parents had been killed.

Those children would then be Mitchell, though fully dressed! come the wards of the Ministry, and wear ng sea boots, supported, and the Minister would be step- Wedderburn by treading water father to them all.

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Two of his sons were killed during the Dunkirk evacuation.

Spike, a fighter in war and in

the ring for fifty years, writes a New York correspondent, is now bosun in a cargo vessel sailing between Canada and England.

Thirty усаго ago he was Briush ring champion

and claims to have fought 700 coraps with his fists and three wars with guna.

Gave Star "Lug" Ear

According to Spike the only fight he ever lost was to Stanley Ketchel back in 1008, after he had knocked out Jack O'Brien, Tommy Burns and Deafle Burke

In 1921 he gave Victor Mo- Laglen the "lug" car he carries. It was in a fight scene during the filming of an early Holly wood

"Gentia- picture called man Jim." Spike played the

villain.

Sullivan shipped out to South Africa, and arrived to find the Boer War had started. He joined the Army.

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In 1914 he joined up again in Canada as a private and soon be- came a captain.

Four times in the present, war Spike. has felt the chill waters of the Atlantic after his ships had been torpedoed,

He spent thirty-eight hours. on a life raft off Narvik-with, a shipmate, the only other` aur- vivor of a thirty-nine-man crew.

In 1912 he survived the Titanic disaster.

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