Mr, James C. Filman's Rescue of Waitress Recalled young Briton's gallantry rescuing a Japanese waitress from death in the Whangpoo River carly in June this year ig recalled in the report from London' that Mr. James Conrad Filman, aged eighteen, has been awarded ithe Bronze Medal of the Royal Humane Society.
'Mr. Filman is an apprentice at the China General Omnibus Company and his address Is given as 19 Vu Yuen Road. His gallant act' was reported in Shanghai at the time, when on June 4 Miss Kayako Kanego, aged 21, waitress in the Dar Ishi Restaurant, Whose address was 125 East Paoshing Road, attempted to end her life in the River. Her cries brought Filman {to the spot and without hesitation he Jumped into the. treacherous waters to her rescue, After a terrific steug~ he managed to get her to the Side of "the foreshore where they were both helped out of the water. Spectators, it will be recalled, were loud in their praises for the coura~ xious young man. His action was not forgotten but duly came to the fears of the Committee of the Royal Humane Society whose award of the Bronze Medal was announced in London on August 20,
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