IRISH SEA SWIM.
MISS GLEITZE FAILS.
COLLAPSE AFTER 10 HOURS
Australian Press Association—United Service LONDON". Au S . 11.
Mi ss Mercedes Gleitze, who has swum the Channel and tho Straits of Gibraltar, is still seeking fresh seas to conquer. Sho failed to cross the Irish Sea, after bwimniing for 10 hours. She fainted, and on being taken into a pilot boat collapsed. Her limbs were numb. A
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20332, 13 August 1929, Page 9
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