MERCEDES GLEITZE.
CONQUERS THE WASH. (By Telegraph,-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Australian Press Assn, and Sun.) (Received This Day, 12.i0 p.m.) LONDON, June 20. Mercedes Gleitze in her third attempt swam the Wash from Boston to Enettisham, coveiing thirty miles. She was ■exhausted after a ■thirteen hours’ battle, with the currents and crawled up ■on the beach, but quickly recovered.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 June 1929, Page 5
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