ALMOST GAVE UP
GIRL’S GIBRALTAR SWIM FINGERS PARALYSED | By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright, j Reed. 10.13 a.m. RUGBY, Monday. Miss Mercedes Gleitze, the London typist who claims to have swum the j Straits of Gibraltar, was interviewed |in Paris to-day on her way home to | London. | She Said that swimming the Straits ; was quite different from swimming | the English Channel. The water was j much warmer, and she did not suffer ; from cold, although her fingers '-•ere ! paralysed after about six hours in the ! water. | After about one and a-half hour’s | swimming, the current became so i strong that she was almost on the j point of giving up, but the pilot eni couraged her to go on, and shortly afterwards the current changed and I helped her.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 325, 10 April 1928, Page 1
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