RESOURCEFUL WOMAN.
INCIDENT DURING EIRE. LONDON, June 26. The Daily Herald’s Madras correspondent says a Hyderabad official’s wife, by improvising a fire escape, saved many lives in the theatre fire. She tore off her gaily-coloured sari and tied it to the balcony railing enabling forty persons, including herself, to slide down to the auditorium whence they escaped.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 168, 17 June 1936, Page 12
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57RESOURCEFUL WOMAN. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 168, 17 June 1936, Page 12
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