FREYBERG’S FAILURE
IN WATER NINE HOURS
{Australian and N.Z Cable Association.!
LONDON, September 6
Frcyberg’s brave effort ended after he had been in the water nine hours. A strong tide took him along the French coast, while lie swam twenty strokes to the minute. Tho weather then became had.
When lie hoarded the tug and abandoned the swim lie was still five miles outside tlie (loodwins, and the. conditions were unfavorable.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17132, 7 September 1926, Page 7
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71FREYBERG’S FAILURE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17132, 7 September 1926, Page 7
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