WITHIN A MILE.
Burgess fails to swim the CHANNEL. (Received 8.45 a,m.) LONDON, August 18. After swimming many hours Burgess, in his second attempt to swim the Channel this season, was within a mile of Cape Grisnez when an adverse tide carried him back seaward and compelled him to abandon the attempt.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 198, 19 August 1908, Page 5
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