THREE CHILDREN BURNED.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20024, 4 September 1930, Page 8

THREE CHILDREN BURNED.

■ , . BROTHERS' HEROIC RESCUE WORK. (tmrrxD frcss association—bt electkio TILEOEAPH—COPTRIQHT.) LONDON, September 2. Despite the heroism ,of their elder brothers, three Anglo-Chinese children, under eight years, were incinerated in Liverpool's Chinatown. The family occupied a two-storey tenement building. The father, Hun Yen, was absent. Thirteen-year-old Robert Yen's pet dog Spot aroused him by barking at midnight. Robert woke his mother, who is an Englishwoman, and both ran downstairs and found the kitchen on the ground floor blazing fiercely. The mother rushed for a fire engine, while Robert went back in an effort to rescue his thre< brothers and two sisters. The flames drove him back, after which he clung to a window-sill, from where he was rescued, badly burned. Meanwhile, his 10-ycar-old brother Willie, in the smoke-filled room, picked up the baby, broke a window, and held the child out in the fresh air until a fireman climbed up the fire-escapa to rescue them. Willie said, "Wait a minute," and. ran back and brought another infant. The fireman carried both down, and then returned ' to rescue Willie, who was dinging to the hot waterspout. Another hero Ah Sin, who is blind. Despite his burning clothes, he stood at a window shouting, "Save the children," but by then two boys and a girl had been trapped. . A fireman found the charred bodies, also the body of the dog Spot, which Willie say's was - tugging at the bedclothes, eifdeavouring to rouse the unconscious children.