"Bravo, Anglais!"
On August 7th a man sixty years of ago threw himself into tho Rhone and was rapidly carried by the current towards on v electric works where certain death awaited him. A large gesticulating crowd gathered on the auoy, but did nothing to rescue the man. Suddenly an English visitor named Stewart Ramsey, twenty-two years of age, seeincr. the danger, divested himself of his boots and coat and dived into the stream. He succeeded in holding the man until a boat arrived. Meanwhile the crowd hod greatly increased, and the Englishman on, lauding was received with shouts of "Bravo, Anglais P' Ramsey coolly lit his pipe and walked to his hotel amid great enthusiasm.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10449, 20 September 1901, Page 1
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116"Bravo, Anglais!" Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10449, 20 September 1901, Page 1
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