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HOW BURGESS SWAM THE CHANNEL
Desperate Battle With Tides.
party on my accompanying boats and by the sight of the people on the shore await ing my landing. I was shot past Grimes Punt by the tide at a distance of 400 yards: 10 from the shore,. I made a race to get in Tha sanal swim scomplished by Wilca the west of the point where there is a ham Thomas Bergen is described by sandy spid, dus was caught by an off-setting home papes in probably the most gigantic current and carried round the point again
the athletic world.
only a hundred or so garde away." "I'was Oce account of the awim stalos that fooling very quoor during this time; my Burgess tank the water at 11.13 in the heart seemed sa ..had stopped boating a ja ait I know I wutions- the end-of-mp morning under the, cliffs midway bet woon the, South Foreland and St. Margaret'e resources. To ease the strain on the Bay. At the start the breeze was north-heart I had boon swimming back stroko
for MOZIO litete time and I go east, about tan miles an hour, and this was favourable to the swimmer. It was soon apparent, however, that the wind was freshening. White-capped wards came roll ing up, and Burgess had a bad time
Several times be swallowed water, the lumpy "des was rery firing to his arm AGENTS for KISHIDAKR & SAKITU action, and most serious of all, his eyes |became affected," the loppy water getting under tha motor goggles he was wancing. In the first throo hours he changed his goggles four times..
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After swimming for an hour and a half Burgess asked fur some hot chocolate, While taking his drink Burgess chatted with the party, stating that in all hister perionca bo had over suffered so much from the salt water. Burgess used his left overarm stroke continually-twenty-four
to the minute-and did not vary it for
Afteen hours.
little botter. If I had not been an old hand as the game I should have gone ander. It was touch and go as I was swept round the point to the eastward again. I realised that I must make my biggest effort, an I made, a sprint for a spit of sand just under the little village near Grisana Point and fuck decided that I should succeed. Weld- man had been swimming with me the last three hours, and when we landed and he shook hands, and congistulated me I was no overcome that I cried.
By mileage for the swim has worked out. atau agerage of one and three-quarter miles an hour for the 2 hours.
A DISAPPOINTING PER-
FÖRMANCE,
HE OBTAINED"
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1911.
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Remembering the China Afail's adverse critique of the Islanders it is interesting SOLE AGENTS FOR CHINA, read the Straits Times' comments on the same play.
Hongkong, October 3, 1911.
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About three o'clock in the afternoon a big tramp steamer hove in sight. The whole of the party stood up and signalled has to go behind the swimmer, and her
After sitting out The Islander last night captain slowed down and altered his course. from the first note to the last we are left when informed who was in the water he wondering how on earth it ever came to be and the crew shouted a message of good staged. With a seventeenth century chap wishes, which was beartily responded to.
bouk of Scottish jokes, a fow clippings The end of the food bide on which the from the puzzle column of a modern ponny. swim was started task Burgess three miles weekly, and some small facility on the north of the South Sands Head lightship.piano-r any old instrument will do-we In three hours he was six miles off the land. do not see why everybody should not take Thelup was still troubling him, and after to playwriting" on the lines of The a bout of sickness he had a serious talk Islsader. The results might not be quite DOMESTIC CLEANLINESS and with his pilot as to the advisability of reas appalling as the model and they could), every Domestic Building or part of aining in the water. A couple more hardly be worse, The Islander's only such buliding within the EASTERN turns of sickness will finish me," he said, distinction, in fact, in its absolute awful Division of the City of Victoria, and the but wheu alvived that the wind was drapes we don't know how to express it EASTERN Division of Kowloon, com
pied by Members of more than one family, otherwise. It might be indicted scaph those within the European Reser ping he settled down to hard swiniming.
breach of the peace had it only been played Tation or in Kowloon South of Austin The abb tile was teamendously strong in public place within the meaning of Road or those parts of a domestic build- And seven hours from the start Burgess w* the act. As it is, last night's audience be CLEANSED and LIMEWASHED ing used as a Shop, Office or Godown, mat three miles south of the Vane, or, roughly, ues the money spent on it.
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shows the deck of a battleship, supposed At seven o'clock Burgess ata a fer to be somewhere in Persian waters. On The inflammation in his eyes walk a few men in navel uniform followed grapes. having subsided, he started his night swim bory of butiful. English maidens who here come to inspect the ship-in Persian in excellent spirits. So fast did he travelwators: This crowd is joined presently by that the motor beat-under-coulil Bobby Roberts-pardonly a Scotch hardly keep up with bit, and he laughingTasha who, after explaining he has been Walls
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jenek the very jokes that were the cause of The next food tile took-Burress_on_mest of Scotland's early troubles. A touch
The Eastars Division of the City in most painful efforts Peel Street. England. He was compelled to crom the one of Harry Lauder's
Everyone is transported asboro for the -Kowlook is divided into the Exst- dreaded Ridge Bank, whore he noticed the second net and a ropresentation of an and Western alvialone by Nathan chill of the shallow water and asked for alleged Eastern dance proludes an hour of Road and a straight line drawn from the soundings to be taken. When informed
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W. BOWEN ROWLANDS, after eighteen hours, awimming, Burgess
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A few minutes later he declared that he had a bad fit of the blues, and if the
at a time.
describes it, concludes with a very pleasant number entitled "Auld Lang Syne."
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This is what the Singapore Free Pres said:One besitates to strike a discordant note in an otherwise brilliant-run,-and-in taken as a alar on the actors and setresies doing so in this instance it must not be
who took part in The Islander** Isat
· MAGISTRACT. night-they did their best in a hopeles production. The piece is described as farcical and it is that In its warstwense, TT is bezaby notified that a MEETING and ope
what indaced Maarice of the LICENSING BOARD wil he good name and held in the Council Chamber on WED to include NESDAY, the 1st day of November, 1911,
Band consider,
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such an utter failure in an otherwise almost at 2.15 ..; for the purpose of considering faultless raportoirs, picca that can only
only applications for Publicave and Bote draw a London audience lors comparatively Feopers' Adjunct Licences for the year POSITIVELY THE BIGGEST SHOW faw nights is not much use to a touring 1911-1912 under the Liquor Licences Or company.
dinance, 1911, Thero is not a single original joke in the whole piece, the mafonty are cribbed from the Magistracy All applications must be Forms of application may be obtained at music-ball stage and not a few forwarded to the Magistracy on or before contain an undesirable suggestiveness Bain day, the 14th day of October, 1911; about them: The music is decidedly weak sad must be accompanied by a deposit of and tuneless and, the production locked Third Dollars, that vim so essential to a musical comedy,
the
E, the Undersigned have this day boys dida't sing to him he should chuck it
stablished ourselves as STOCK, SHARE and GENERAL BROKERS and
shortly," The
party at once unearthed its will carry on basines ander the style of musical members. Mr Watson lod off with MOXON & TAYLOR at the Offices recently occupied by Messrs E. P. Kadoorie the "Miserere" from Il Trovatore reputation tr & Co., 5, Queen's Buildings, Chatur Road,cly a quere melody for anyone longing Hongko
G. G. MOXON, JOHN W. TAILOR, for encomgement and Burgoss promptly asked for the Marseillaiss." The whole party therespon broke out into the surring strains of the French national song, and SWATOW WARRONG & CO., kept it up for periods of twenty micutes
At 6.30 Burgess found he was not making headway, and the situation was critical. Burgess summed up the situation in twenty Swatow Hand-made Drawn Work conds, and told his pilot that, rather
and Canton Embroidery, etc.
than run the risk of being swept off shore GENERAL EXPORTERA,
by the tide, na he was on a previous swim, WHOLESALE & RETAIL be would make a dash for the nose of ADIES' TAILORS.
A Bombay message mys the Imperial Grisnez. The course was at once altered, Council is now considering an Airship Bill. and the wisdom of Burgess's decision was for the control of all flying machines and enon apparent, for he drow rapidly nozrer giving the Government the right to scire the land.
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RHEA ORLIG, their efforts on that secount.
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At 8.30 the point of the Cupo wapensation, in time of war. straight ahend, and Burgess had missed
It by a little under a quarter of a mile! By many on board this was regarded as
CHINESE OURIOS & PORCELAINs end of the attempt, and Burgess said
KWONG CHEONG.
ho was in a bad way, but, if nocassary, would take a cash for the shore. His great
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The Marseillais was again trolled 713forth from the bont, as Burgese Howly fought his way inon by Inch into the bay cast, of Grunez. The scone was most dramatic.
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It was a race with the tide, and Burgoss won" by inches, standing upright on the sands of France at ozactly 0.50; Họ bad swear from England te Frauce in 22 hours 35 minutes,
In concluding his own story of the swim, Burgene said: It was a tremendous task to finish, but I wna, encouraged by the
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