SWIMMING THE CHANNEL.
ANOIHEU UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT. [PIIBSB ASSOCIATION.] (Received August 23, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, 22nd August, Montague Holbein abandoned his attempt to swim the Englteh Channel owing to sickness after he had been ten hours in the water. He was half way across whon he gavo up tho attempt. This is the fifth time Holbein has attempted to swim the Channel. Last year, starting from Dover at 6.45 p.m., he swam splendidly all through the night, and at 8 a.m. was about four miles from the French Coast. Between 11 and 12 o'clock the tide had carried him eight miles from land, and it being evidently hopeless for him to attempt to proceed, he left the water, having been in the sea. for seventeen hours twenty minutes. lloll>ein'H nearest approach to success was in August, 1002, when he got within half a mile of land at St. Margaret's Bay, after atarling from Cape Grisneß.
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Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 46, 23 August 1904, Page 5
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