BRAVE RESCUE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 97, 5 February 1936, Page 8

BRAVE RESCUE.

COURAGE AND MODESTY. Croat courage and resource were shown at Humewood, near Port Elizabeth, South Africa, recently by a man who went away without disclosing his name. Three bathers got into difficulties in a rough sea, and the stranger >vas instrumental in rescuing two of them. Then he quietly lost himself in the crowd. In the first instance a bather who bad gone out as l’ar as the safety ropes found the return swim beyond his powers, and lie clung to the ropes, with heavy seas washing over liis head. Two other swimmers went to his assistance, but having reached the ropes they also were unable to lace the return journey. Two or three men took a boat out, but the waves were so high that the boat was immediately in danger of being swamped, and they were compelled to return to the slioie. A municipal life-saver, accompanied by several other men, made his way to the rocks surrounding the children’s pool with a line and endeavoured to throw it to the three men, but failed. Then a man wearing a brown suit climbed out like a monkey along the safety ropes from the rocks surrounding the support cable at the children’s pool. Carrying a line with him, he worked his way along the rope, hanging upside down, and succeeded in reaching one of the men in danger. He was hauled to safety. The rescuer clambered back along the lope and took out the line again. In the meantime, one man had been rescued directly from the shore, so that only one was left oil the ropes. To this man the rescuer succeeded in throwing the line, and lie was pulled in to the rocks after having been in a serious predicament for something like 20 minutes. The rescuer returned to the rocks again along the rope and quietly left the scene.