Leap Into Whangpoo to Pull Out Four Chinese Two Japanese bluejackets last week Jumped into the Jey waters of the Whangpoo to save four Chinese girls from drowning, but thought 0 little of their action as to fall to report It their superiors, local Japanese wwspapers reported on February 7.
The first intimation of the rescue was received by the men's officers on the arrival of a letter from Mfr. Yasoro Hori, manager of the Kung Dah. atilt No. 4, expressing appreciation of the 'Summoned before thei officer, the two men shyly admitted that they had jumped into the river to save four Young) women' struggling in the swiftly Mowing waters of the Whang 00. 7
The girls were travelling from the till to Pootung late in the afternoon, when they fell over the side of the crowded junk, Their desperate cries standing on' the shore, into the river.
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