A MOTHER'S HEROISM.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 309, 30 December 1922, Page 7

A MOTHER'S HEROISM.

i SAVES THREE FROM FIRE. j RESCUED WHEN UNCONSCIOUS. (Received !' a.m.) LONDON, December 20. J A mother's heroism was "ithe most remarkable incident of a tire in Portsmouth.. ; When the alarm was given she dropped j her seven-year-old daughter from a : window into the arms of the crowd, then I carried a three-year-old child into the street, and dashed hack to rescue another. I I despite the fact that she was wearing | only a nightdress which was on fire and | i that her hands and face were scorched by j flames. She seized a thirteen-year-old son and struggled with him to the. j stairs. She then collapsed, hut was car- ! ried out by rescuers. \ Firemen penetrated the flames, and, ] found a crippled boy suffocated and a 1 little girl unconscious. The latter was i carried out, and her first act was to kiss j 'her rescuer. — (United Service.) j : JEWS' PALESTINE HOME. I ONLY 7,000 IMMIGRANTS. t ! GERMAN BID FOR TRADE. j (Received 5.30 a.in.i ! , LONDON. December 20. j A report dealing with the civil adminis- j i tration of Palestine between duly 1, 1020.! i and December :il. 1921. shows that 7.000; immigrants rnlered the country under | i the Jewish national home policy, but i owing to the dearth of immigration 1 during the war it is doubtful -ivhethor ' I the Jewish population is now greater, > than in 1014. I A feature of *he period has been the i great increase in imports from Germany \ j and Austria, not merely due to dpprc-, j dated currencies and low exihanges. hut ; ito the determined efforts of German! '.merchants to get a fnotin™ in Palestine] | Their methods are extended to catalogues ; and price lists in the varnaeu'ar. and this \ •has considerably impressed Palestine l ! importers.-- ( Reuter. I | CARELESS BACTERIOLOGIST. j MILLIONS OF DEADLY GERMS. i FOUND IN LONDON STREET. i 1 (Received !"■'■' .1-111-. J LONDON. December 2<i. j Millions of germ* "' diphtheria and ; t blood poisoning packed in test tubes were ; i found in n London, strct. The owner was not forthcoming, and all were destroyed by burning.— I I'nited Serv ice. I i BOXING CHAMPIONS. ONE TO MEET DEMPSEY. file -.'ive<l 10.3 m a.m.. PARIS. December 2U. "La Press,." states that the winner of the Moran-Nilles match meets .loe Beckett, and the final winner tnee'.s Demps.y in Paris in February.— iA. and N.Z. table.)