Dockers Shoulder Ship Away From Trapped Boy

Northern Advocate, 14 January 1948, Page 2

Dockers Shoulder Ship Away From Trapped Boy

BRISBANE, Wed. (11.30 a.m.). —When an 11-year-old boy was trapped between a ship and a wharf 200 watersiders put their shoulders to the ship’s side and pushed her away from the \\ hati, thus saving the boy from being crushed to death.

Among the watersiders was the boy’s father.

The boy was bringing his father a bottle .of' medicine when the wharf gatekeeper refused him admittance. He climbed under the wharf and tried to scramble up between the wharf timbers and the side of the 8000ton freighted Gloucester.

Export Franc PARIS. Tue. <lO a.m.)—The French Finance Minister (M. Mayer) leaves on January 16 for London to seek British approval for the creation of a devalued export franc to boost France’s sagging exports. The French Government is discussing the creation of an external franc, devalued from the present rate of 480 to the £ sterling to approximately 960 to the £ sterling.

The ship swung in with a swell and caught the boy, who screamed for help. Watersiders, who were sheltering from rain, quickly responded and the boy was rescued uninjured.

M. Mayer will discuss with the British Government methods of increasing and facilitating trade between the sterling and franc currency areas.