MAD SWIMMING TEACHER.
NARROW ESCAPE OF 30 GIRLS.
By Telegraph.—Press Association.— Copenhagen, July 20. A swimming mistress of Helsingborg, on the coast of Sweden, suddenly becoming demented, induced 30 girls to follow her seaward for Elsinore, on the coast of the island of Zealand, Denmark.
A motor boat picked up all the swimmers. The demented woman has since been committed to an asylum.
Helsingborg pwedun) and Elsinore (Denmark), the scene of Shakespere's Hamlet, are situated on the opposite sides of the narrowest part of The Sound, at the entrance to the Baltic Sea. The current runs very swiftly through the sound at this point. The distance across is 2£ miles.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15056, 27 July 1912, Page 7
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110MAD SWIMMING TEACHER. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15056, 27 July 1912, Page 7
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