Presented with Gold Watch for!
Saving Life in the Huangpu interesting ceremony took jpluce on Monday when Mr. S. Pessenden, on behalf of the Shanghai Municipal "Council, presented a gold watch suitably "inscribed -to Sgt. G. Martin, Royal Artillery, for gallantry in saving life. The cumstances of his brave act are as follows:—
At Shanghai on June 1, 1927 at! about 9 p.m. Sgt. Martin, while walking along the river front, saw foreign woman throw herself into the river from the Peking Road Jetty. Sgt. -Murtin immediately plunged in after her and, after swimming some 70 to 80 yards, reached her, and, in spite of struggle on the part of the woman, succeeded in holding her up unit the arrival of a sampan which had put off from the shore. The woman, now unconscious, was got on board the boat, and recovered by Set. Martin.
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