THE CHANNEL SWIM.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 31 August 1927, Page 4

THE CHANNEL SWIM.

SEVERAL FUTILE ATTEMPH CHOPPY SEAS PREVENT | SL'CCESS. (Per Press Association- Copyright LONDON, Aug. S The sudden temporary return i summer was responsible for a rd of Channel swimmers, rangingfr® Miss Jansen, a 17-year-old Daw.l Dr. Schiff, a 65-year-old riernuui. Others are Misses Mart Idhj Hawke, Harding and Mrs man (England). All started from Orisnez at id ioute times, but were forced to j bandon owing to the choppy Mists MaeClelliin, of Harley Si wa«s in the water 14 hours and i , ered 13 miles. l Miss Harding, vim water for 71 hours, swam the l hour in a state of coma an '* lapsed when being dragged the tug and was unconscious • an hour. . J Miss Hawke was far out o course after seven hours with the cross currents an ’ faint. She was rescued 'r’ t ctdiy. . U ;u Dover Cliff- were crowded disappointed onlookers. Woods’ Great Peppermint Jin First aid for coughs, colds, mH