BRAVERY EXTOLLED

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 September 1934, Page 3

BRAVERY EXTOLLED

GIRL STRANGLES BANDIT. LONDON, August 15. Harnam Kaur, lovely little Punjabi girl, will be greatly sought, after in marriage. Harnam and the other girls of her village had much jewellery, so men said. So bandits came in f.he evening while the men were at work in the fields. Other girls were out, but Harnam xvas busy about her house. Bandits seized her, demanded where the other girls and their jewels were hidden. They could not make llarnaih speak. Three bandits climbed to the flat roof of the house. Soon came Harnam’s brothers, warned while in the fields. The one bandit remaining below raised his rifle . . . . but Harnam leaped. She grabbed his gun and held him with it till her brothers captured him. Shots rang out from the root. Harnam, twice wounded, hid behind the staircase. Gingerly a bandit was creeping down the stairs, when Harnam leaped again. She strangled him with the golden necklace ho had just stolen. Then Harnam fainted.

The men of the village, who had joined her brothers, rushed the stairs. In the tight, one more bandit was captured. The fourth escaped. But Harnam’s father was shot dead. Recently the Sikh community of Lahore —'great fighting race —presented a sword and a robe of honour to Harnam Kaur, and made speehes extoling her bravery. The Punjab Government announces that it will give her 1000 rupees (£75) and two pieces of land as dowry.