TRANS-ATLANTIC SWIM.
STUDENTS' HOAX
AMAZING SCENES IN GLASGOW
V BV CABLE— PRESS ASSOCIATION—COrTRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.)
LONDON, January 13.
Glasgow undergraduates organised an elaborate hoax in the interests of charity. They announced that an American student, Ann Hapemiy, ivns swimming the Atlantic. They published daily bulletins of her progress from New York. Forty thousand people, packed bridges and streets to witness her arrival. She was accompanied by a row-boat with a piper seated in the bows, skirling merrily. The swimmer received a magnificentreception, ishe landed amid cheering, dressed at a quayside shed, and drove through the streets seated in a taxi, drying her golden curls and acknowledging the cheers of the crowd. It was then revealed that the swimmer was a well-known undergraduate. He swam only a quarter of a mile. Meanwhile the students were busy collecting among the crowd on behalf of the hospitals.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18900, 15 January 1927, Page 15
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147TRANS-ATLANTIC SWIM. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18900, 15 January 1927, Page 15
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