Admiral Sir S. Fremantle has drawn attention to the large number of men in the Royal Navy who cannot swim, and he thinks this high percentage is discreditable to the Navy. Testing a new artificial leg and a hcmc-made contrivance for pedalling with one foot, Reginald Baker, a discharged soldier, cycled from Rochester to Leeds—226 miles—in forty-two hours. The highest hotel in Europe is now being built near the summit of the Jungfrau, in the Swiss Alps, at au altitude of 11,800 ft.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 96, 18 January 1924, Page 5
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