Hoax Carried Out to Prove Necessity for Home Control London, Oct. 16.
The sensational statement is made by the "News of the Work!" that the Channel swim alleged to have bean accomplished by Miss "Mona Me-Lennan" (Dr. Dorothy Logan) on Tuesday was a hoax carried out by. Dr, Logan in order, it says, to. show the desirability of establishing international commission to control supervise and certify all Channel Dr. Logan, who hed previously sworn an affidavit that she had accomplished the swim, was paid a Jeheque for the £1,000 offered by the News of the World" fur beating'
srtrude Ederle's time, but she ste since returned it to the donors.
In a statement, Dr. Logan says that she entered the sea at Cap Gris Nez at 740 on Monday evening. The tide was already ebbing and it was parent to everybody that she! would never swim the Channel that lit, so at about 9.30 she was taken! into the boat: the pilot had decided that they were then sufficiently far from the shore to exeape detection of the manquvre. She re-entered the water at 6.20 the next morning and swam an hour before she landed fon the beach. Prior to her swim she had prepared a detailed statement! of what she had meant to do and! her motive. This document she placed in a sealed envelope and saw it deposited in the safe of an hotel at Hythe—Reuter.
London, Oct. 16.
Amid agreement as to the desirability of instituting an official check fon Channel performances there some disapproval of Dr. Dorothy Logan's methods of drawing attention to the necessity for such a stem:
Miss Mercedes Gleitze, the London girl typist, who swum' from Cap] Gris Nez to Folkestone on October said in an interview to-day that order to restore the prestige of women Channel swimmers she ought to repeat her swim, and. she was! willing to do so under certain con-_ ditions.
The London insurance clerk, Mr. E. H. Temme, who wae the first to }cross the Channel this season, point fed out that he was accompanied in his swim on August 5 by. a number, of independent witnesses, Mrs, Gill of Sheffield, who per-
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