and Scoutmaster Hongkong, July 20.
The "China Mail reports an instance of conspicuous _heroism which was displayed during the freseue work carried on to save the tives of those entombed in the recent, Mr. R. B. Cargin, an officer of /H. M. 8. Brisbane and Scoutmaster Hughie Braga for an hour and a half worked in a lying down posi-ition in a narrow aperture under the ruins with great danger to their lown safety. They were soaked to the skin, covered in mud, bruised and exhausted, but they carried on with unceasing toil inside the death, chamber and ultimately rescued a 18 year old Chineze girl.
Both Mr. Cargin and Mr. Braga received the congratulations of the Superintendent of Police, atr [Burlingham, after the reseue—Pacific Service.
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