THICKER THAN WATER
History repeated itself in a minor way when H. Thomson, of Mountain View. California, attached to the Hospital Corps of the United States Marines at Shanghai, gave a transfusion of blood to promote the recovery of Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen the wounded British Ambassador to China (says the Manchester Guardian) The incident recalls the words of Commodore Joseph Tatnall in his dispatch to the United States Secretary of the Navy justifying the assistance he gave the British Fleet during the bombardment of the Taku Forts in Tientsin on the Pei-ho River in 1859. An appreciative thrill went round the English-speaking world when it became known that Commander Tatnall had conveyed his explanation in the phrase, "Blood is thicker than water."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23330, 23 October 1937, Page 4
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122THICKER THAN WATER Otago Daily Times, Issue 23330, 23 October 1937, Page 4
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