GIRL'S FATAL SWIM
Two days after breaking a swimming endurance record by keeping afloat for 71) hours in the Baldenay Lake, near Essen, Germany, Fraulein Litzig died in hospital. During the last hours of her swim Fraulein Litzig could hardly move, and was in a listless condition. She had to be encouraged by music, noise and shouts to keep afloat. When tho girl was taken out of the water she had to bo wrapped in wadding and towels and taken in an ambulance to a hospital, accompanied by her mother, who declared triumphantly, " I bring you the best swimmer in tho world." Fraulein Litzig beat her own world's endurance record of last year by five hours.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21616, 7 October 1933, Page 2 (Supplement)
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116GIRL'S FATAL SWIM New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21616, 7 October 1933, Page 2 (Supplement)
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