Heroic Doctor.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXIX, Issue 15, 12 October 1907, Page 7

Heroic Doctor.

A story of marvelluos heroism and self-sacrifice has just been reported from India by Sir Francis Younghusband. The hero — a German physician, Dr. Albert von Lecoq —is to be presented by the Prince of Wales and the ChapterGeneral of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England with a medal specially struck in gold for lifesaving on land. Captain J. D. Shener, of the Royal Garrison Artillery, was travelling in Chinese Turkistan and met Dr. von Leeoq at Kashgar. They agreed to travel back to India together. Captain Shener watt taken ill with enteric fever and pneumonia. Dr. von Leeoq set out for assistance, and had to travel tor nine consecutive days, crossing the dreaded Sasser and Murghi Passes. During that time he lived on Hour balls rolled I.y his servant, and then dipped in melted grease. He hai 1 left meat and other stores behind him. with complete disregard of himself, fearing that Captain Shener would run short. Dr. von Lecoq, who himself was in poor health, crossed the Sasser and Murghi Passes three times in fourteen days, the third time in a blinding snowstorm. The Sasser Pass is nearly eighteen thousand feet high, and the summit consists of some three miles of perpetual glacier.