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SPACER’S HOAX CHANNEL “SWIM” TOOK FIVE MINUTES (A. & N.Z.) LONDON, June 12. The correspondent of the Echo de Paris at Calais declares that Spacek’s claim that he swam the Channel is a mero hoax. He arrived at Calais on Tuesday and left on Thursday, when he motored to a seaside village, accompanied by a photographer. There Spacek hired a room, changed into swimming costume, bathed for five minutes and then rushed out because the water was too cold. He returned to Calais and went to Paris. No boat owner in Calais lent a boat for the Channel swim. Experts declare that neither the wind nor the condition of the water made an attempt possible last week.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19866, 14 June 1927, Page 7
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