FASTING CONTEST.
FRENCH V. GERMAN. BERLIN, February 22. A huge crowd applauded Jolly, the German hunger champion, on the completion of bis first week in the attempt to beat the French champions lasting record of forty-three days. Jolly is confined in a glass case, where he reads Goethe, and listens-in to wireless. He has already smoked a thousand cigarettes and drunk ninety-two ' bottles of mineral water. He sleeps uneasily.—(A. and N.Z. Cable).
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 45, 23 February 1926, Page 7
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72FASTING CONTEST. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 45, 23 February 1926, Page 7
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