CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7] — Page 535

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Enclosure 4.

INSTRUCTIONS TO CLAIMANTS for REWARDS of the ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY, setting forth the particulars of the onge of FREDERICO LEOCADIO SILVA who risked his om life in rescuing a Chinese woman from being drowned at Hongkong on the 12th June, 1922. 489

Name, Address, Aga, and occupation of thể claimant.

Name, Address, Age, and accupation of the person saved.

Time of day, date & place at which the accident occurred, depth of water, etc. to be here stated.

The precise nature of the axertions used and risk incufred in saving the person and other particulars.

That was the actual time of immersion of the per- son saved, & the state of the body when first rescued?

Frederico Lebondio Silva aga 27 years, Telegraph Office Clerk, Eastern Extension Telegraph Company.

Lau Wai U, age 30 years, no address, no occupation.

At 8.5 p.m., 12th June, 1922. At about mid-stream in the Harbour, Hongkong. Depth about 45 feet. The sea was calm but a strong tide was running at the time. (It is completely dark in Hongkong at 8 p.m. even in the Bummer.)

▲ Chinese widow jumped overboard from the Star Ferry Launch with the evident intention of committing suicide. She jumped from the lower deck. Mr. Silva who was on the upper deck heard the splash and heard a shout of "Somebody overboard". He ran to the side of the launch and while endeavouring to locate the person in the water he removed his coat and kicked off his shoes. Then he eventually saw the woman in the water she was a good distance astern. He jumped from the upper deck, swan to the woman and getting hold of her, swa to a life buoy which had been thrown overboard. He placed the woman on the buoy and he himself hung on until the ferry bont came back and they were both taken back on board.

About 5 minutes. The Chinese woman did not lose consciousness.

What was done with the body The woman was taken charge of by a and where taken to?

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doctor named Castro who took her to his house and gave her a change of clothing and some warm food. She was afterwards taken to the Central Póliad Station where she was looked after.

It was not considered necessary to send the women to hospital, so the above-mentioned Bootor Castrò offered to take her into his service as imah which she gratefully accept- ad.

This paper to be accompanied by certificates of one armore eye-witnesses who should add their profession or trade after signature and state fully in their own handskring, the precise nature of the claimant's exertions, showing the notual risk he therey incurred.