CHANNEL SWIM
MISS GLEITZB GIVES UP. EIGHT MILES FROM DOVER. (Received noon;)-' LONDON, October 21. Miss Mercedes Gleitze, who aimed at swimming the Channel a second time, in justification of her first ,sueo(ess, ami for the honour of other British women swimmers, following upon Dr. Dorothy Logan’s hoax, entered'• the water at Cape Gris-Nez in. fine, cold weather, but was fotced to relinquish her task when eight miles from Dover. —A. and N.Z. • .
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Northern Advocate, 22 October 1927, Page 9
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73CHANNEL SWIM Northern Advocate, 22 October 1927, Page 9
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