STRANGE HAPPENINGS
(Own Correspondent-
Hot Weather in Denmark
— By Air Mail.)
j-iUiNiJUjN, Aug. 13. Hot weather is causing funny -things to kappen irt Denmark. It all began when a nmn climbed up the 300-feet spire of Copenhagen Town Halk He found fresli air and a job as a circus artist. Then Lizzie Tanzer, 21-year-old tobaeco factory girl, swam the Oresund — 18 miles in nine hours. Next day.Lilly Andersen itf.d it in 7| hours, while Mr Hansen and his wife went aeross the Great Belt on a water-cycle. „ Jenny Kammersgaard, aged 17, swam from bealand to J utland, 55 miles in ' "9 liours — a world reeord. Pinally, a waitcr naiued Fovcrskov won a bct that he could race 21 miles on a scooter in 3J hours by doing it in 3 'hours 1-1 minutcs.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 195, 3 September 1937, Page 3
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