16 MARCH 1934, Page 6

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: BOY HERO OF FLAT FIRE. The narrative : " A 12-year-old schoolboy, awakened by a noise which he thought was caused by mice nibbling through the ceiling, was the hero of a blaze in a Hampstead flat." " The boy hero was D— S—." So the News-Chronicle. What did he do ? Let him speak for himself. " I roused my father and mother " and " I rang the bells at the other flats to rouse the occupants." Could Casablanca have done more ?

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