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-4» ! WOMEN'S THRILLING RESCUE. Holiday crowds at Barmouth, North l Wales, witnessed a thrilling rescue of i two. women from a precipice. Hearing ' screams for help coming one night from . i dangerous cliff known an Graifach, Mr. .Dennis Lloyd, a local fishmonger, and Mr. <r. Jones, telephone supervisor, found | *,wo Birmingham women visitors holding i >n to a rock on the precipice. i Unable to move from their perilous oosition, the two women clung to each jther. Their screams had attracted crowds of visitors to the scene. At great personal risk Mr. Lloyd and Mr. Jones went to the rescue, and succeeded in reaching the women and carrying them j safely to the mountain-side. The two visitors had taken the wrong path in climbing over the precipice, and . on reaching a sloping rock had been unable to return.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18197, 16 September 1922, Page 2 (Supplement)
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