SWIMMING.
MISS GI.KI I'ZK’S SUCCESS. (United Service.) (Received this day at 9.30 a.m). MADRID, April fi. A Ttirifil telegram states Miss Gleitze swam the Straits in 7.10 minutes. She started irom the Island oj_ l’aloma and landed a Putiia Leona near Ceuta. Madrid. April it. .Mercedes Gleitze told netf-paper correspondents at Tarila and Taugierx that she swam the t-J.raits of Gibraltar yesterday Despatches published in Madrid newspapers to-day said Miss Gleitze .drafted her ■ fourth attempt to swim the hitherto unconquerable Strtu'ts iiont Paloma island olf Tarifa tit B.Oil in the morning and arrived at Puma Leona oil the African coast at 9.20 night, taking 12 hours 20 minutes lor the journey ol approximately fifteen miles. Site told correspondents Flint she returned to Tarifa at midnight by boat, alter swimming the Straits. She added after reiterating (lie statement: "In tlte first few hours it seemed though I would make no progress at all. hut in the nllel'lioon and evening I improved and felt I would succeed. I finished nit bout difficulty."
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 April 1928, Page 4
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