CHANNEL SWIM
THREE OTHER. ATTEMPTS FAIL. 7IMMY AND MISS GLEITZE. (Urn-tad Press Association—By F ectrio Telegraph —Copyright) LONDON, August 30. E. H. Tomme and Charles Zimmy, the legless America, left the English Coast to-day, under excclent conditions. ' Temme abandoned the swim after seven hundreds minutes, when three miles from the French coast. He injured a. foot by striking a tug. Zimmy abandoned bis attempt to swim the English Channel after he bad been thirteen hours swimming and when he was bijne miles from the South Foreland. At that stage a dense fog had developed over the Channel. bliss Mercedes Gleitze, who had also set out to swim the Channel, abandoned the attempt after she swam for fifteen hours. She had to do so owing to an adverse wind and an adverse tide, when she had reached seven miles from the French coast.
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 August 1933, Page 5
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