RADIO CALL FOR DOCTOR
lONIC ANSWERS REQUEST FOR HELP FRENCH SEAMAN SAVED Press Association WELLLNGTOX, Today. Yet another instance of the use of wireless in saving life was recorded during the last Homeward voyage of the lonic. The vessel’s surgeon, Dr. Harries, boarded the Dunkirk steamer, the Germanic, in a rough sea and attended a member of the crew who was in a weak condition from loss of blood. Wuen tho lonic received the radio rail her course was set for the Germanic and the doctor was transferred in a boat. One of the crew of the French boat had had liis hand almost blowr off in an explosion and the artery had been severed, fatal consequences being feared. Dr. Harries soon made the sufferer comfortable, and his timely aid was nromptlv recognised by the Paris office of tho shipping company, which sent him a set of sleeve-links set in platinum.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 943, 9 April 1930, Page 16
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151RADIO CALL FOR DOCTOR Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 943, 9 April 1930, Page 16
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