GENERAL DROWNED.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17221, 3 October 1927, Page 2

GENERAL DROWNED.

m TRYING TO SAVE GIRL. WIFE SEES BATHING TRAGEDY. In the sight of hundreds of people Brig.-Gcn. N. F. Jenkins, C.M.G., of Greycoat Gardens, Westmister, S.W., and a girl whom he attempted to rescue, Miss Constance Slater, aged 20, of Wcntworth Chambers, Pinstono Street, Sheffield, were drowned at St. Leonards-on-Sca. Miss Slater was one of a bathiing party, and it is stated that she got into difficulties after slipping off a toy rubber animal into the sea. Several people went to the rescue, but, seemed to experience unexpected difficulty, believed to have been due to currents. Hearing screams for help, Brig. General Jenkins, who was GG years of age, attempted to swim to the rescue, but soon he, too, was in difficulties. He had been sitting on the promenade with his wife, who saw him go to the rescue fully dressed, and who collapsed when she saw that he was in difficulties. She was carried to a house and attended to by a doctor. Brig.-General Jenkins and Miss Slater were eventually brought ashore in boats, and relays of police and seven doctors tried artificial respiration for two hours without success. Brig.-General Jenkins entered the 55th Regiment in ISBO and became a captain in the Border Regiment in 1888, retiring in 1905. He served during the South African war and during the European war. He was deputysecretary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.