A HEROIC ACTION
YOUTH’S THOUGHT FOR OTHERS. OWN SAFETY DISREGARDED. Preei Association —Bv Telegraph — Copyright NEW YORK, October 31. The sinking of submarine 05 at Panama on Sunday was marked by a heroic act on the part‘of a youth named Henry Bresult, who was on deck and could have saved himself. Instead, he leaped into the man-hole and slammed the hatch, imprisoning four others with himself. They were imprisoned for 15 hours be fore' the submarine was raised, and they suffered intensely from the air pressure, which was increased bv a fire following an explosion in the batteries. Bresult and an electrician named Brown were rescued, but the other threo were dead.—Sydney Sun Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19008, 2 November 1923, Page 7
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114A HEROIC ACTION Otago Daily Times, Issue 19008, 2 November 1923, Page 7
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