SWIMMING TO COLOGNE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 24 July 1928, Page 5

SWIMMING TO COLOGNE

P BIUIAN ATHLETES’ PILGRIMAGE

(United Pres- Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) —United Service).

GENEVA, July 22.

Twenty thousand swimmers, both men and women, have started to isiwian Com different parts of Germany fitting the rivers Rhine, Saar, Neck air, a/nd 'Moselia to Cologne, where a German at/dcibic and gymnastic meeting will be held. A contingent left Basil on Saturday and carried a casket cntaining jgreet-ing-t from the committee of the Swiss national gymnastic fete at Lucerne, A doctor and a- moiior-launoh. accom-

panies the swimmers. The distance from Base to Cologne by river is 250 miles. . Twelve thousand clubs, with a total membership of 2.000,000. ■ including /representatives from Germany’s lost colonies, will compete in the gymnastic meeting here, isays « Cologne mes'sage. One .hundred and thirty special trains have already conveyed visitors, hiund edn of- whom have slept in the open air owing to ack of a'Ccomimiodatiovi;