HEROIC DEEDS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 54, 3 February 1937, Page 2

HEROIC DEEDS

RECOGNISED BY KING. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received February 2, 12.27 p.m RUGBY, Feb. 1. Several deeds of gallantry are revealed in the Honours List. The Medal of the British Empire Order is awarded to Ashrafunnisa Begum, the wife of Lieutenant Muzar farudin, who was sitting with some 44 other women and children in the Purdah balcony of a cinema in Hyderabad when a fire broke out. Both exlte were cut off by the flames and the women were driven to the front of the balcony. Their only means of escape was to jump. The heroine, although a Purdah woman, stripped herself of her sari and tied it to the balcony railing and lowered five women to safety. »no left her own escape so late that sue was unable to descend by the sari and had to jump, injuring herself. A medal is also awarded to Charles Duffin, senior shipwright and diver at the Portsmouth Dockyard, who rescued another diver who became jambed beneath the warship Aurora. Mr Adrian Trapman, Vice-Consul at Addis Ababa, who for four successive days exposed himself to dangerous nflo fire and rescued many British foreign men, women, and children from the mob during rioting after the Emperor’s flight, is awarded the M.B.Jt. Inspector George Adamson, of the River Traffic Police, Calcutta, and Cecil Kelly, assistant river surveyor who m the River Hooghly beached by hand a sinking barge loaded with several tons of dynamite exuding nitro-glyger-ine, then refloating and sank it, are awarded the M.B.E. Frank Naughton, of the 10th Light Tank Company of the Royal Tank Corps, the other recipient of the M.8.E., plunged fully clothed to the rescue of a lance-corporal and a private who had been swept off a bridge into a flooded river near Moshi, Tanganyika. It was only with the utmost difficulty that he was able to overcome the strong cross and under-currents and save them.