CHIVALROUS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 20, 14 May 1892, Page 505

CHIVALROUS.

An exciting story of the rescue from drowning of a Japanese, by an Englishman whose life the Japanese himself had set out to save, is told in a Japanese paper, the Kobe Shimbun. The Englishman was a resident of Tokio. Being on his way to Yokohama, and finding no ferry boat, owing to the swollen state of the river, he determined to swim across with his clothing in a bundle tied on his head. The daring attempt attracted a crowd of sight-seers, one of whom, observing that the stranger was apparently in difficulty, plunged in and swam to his rescue. The Japanese was a good swimmer, but the waters ran swiftly, his strength gave out, and he was carried down stream. Then arose a cry from the spectators, for they saw that the Japanese was going to sink. By this time the Englishman had almost reached the opposite bank, but when he heard the cries of the crowd he turned about, and seeing the drowning Japanese, he again faced the current, and coming up with the drowning man, caught him with one arm, and swimming with the other hand he brought him ashose amid the cheers of the crowd. ‘ How chivalrous was his action !’ exclaims the Japanese journalist in conclusion. ‘ His name we know not, but he has our highest admiration.’