MISS GLEITZE
INTERVIEWED AT PARIS. DID NOT SUFFER FROM COLD. (British Official News.) (United Press Association.) RUGBY, April 9. Miss Mercedes Gleitze, the London typist, who claims to have swum the Straits of Gibraltar, was interviewed in Paris to-day on her way home to London. She said that swimming the straits was quite different from swimming the English Channel. The water was much warmer, and she did not suffer from cold, though her fingers were paralysed after she had been about six hours in the water. After about one and a-half hours swimming the current became bo strong that she was almost on the point of giving up, hut the pilot encouraged her to go on, and shortly afterwards the current •hanged and helped her.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20380, 11 April 1928, Page 9
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125MISS GLEITZE Otago Daily Times, Issue 20380, 11 April 1928, Page 9
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