VIENNA TO LONDON IN A FRAIL CANOE
EIGHT HOURS IN CHANNEL STUDENT ADVENTURERS British Wireless—Press Assn. Copyright RUGBY, Wednesday. Two adventurous Austrian students, Willi Welirls and Walter Klausmeyer, are at present paddling a rubber canoe up the Thames to Oxford. They left Vienna on July 8 in their craft, which is 14ft. long and weighs only 601 b. They have come all the way to England by river and sea. The voyagers crossed the English Channel from Boulogne to St. Margaret’s Bay, Kent, in eight hours. They left London Bridge for Oxford this
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 157, 23 September 1927, Page 9
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93VIENNA TO LONDON IN A FRAIL CANOE Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 157, 23 September 1927, Page 9
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