SWAM SOLENT IN DARK
(Own Correspondent
Woman Nearly Run Down By Liner
— By Air Mail).
LONDON, Sept. 3. Dressed in a bathing costume a girl staggered across the sands from the sea at Hyde, Isle of Wight, about midnight in an exhausted condition. "I have just swum from Portsmoutli alone, '* she told an amazed taxidriver. "I have always wanted to do this,*' she added, and then collapsed. The girl was Miss Louise Horna, aged 21, an Austrian parlourmaid, who was on holiday at Hayling Island with her employer, Mrs. Konald Dower, of Palace gate, Kensington. ^'It was a wonderful experience battling with the big waves," she said yesterday. "I was carried away six times by the tido and a French liner going up the Solent nearly ran rue down. 1 1 was great fun while it was dayliglit." The distance between the two shores is about five miles, but thore are very bad currents. She did the croseing iu 6om« hours. . ^
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 212, 23 September 1937, Page 3
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