Creating a sensation at Weihai wei a few days ago, a id-year old British girl successfully accomplished without any special preparation, the swim from the mainland to the island.
The gist is Miss Vera Humble, 'a pupil of the Cathedral School for Girls, Shanghai, and the daughter lof Me. Robert Humble, manager of the New Engineering & Shipbuild-
Vera Humble 1g Works, She has always been a strong swimmer, and before coming' to Shanghai last year received her icertifieate for passing life-saving tests at home.
On Aug. 13 she just mentioned Jensually {© her mother, when she went down for her morning swim jat the King's Hotel beach, that she was swimming to the island, Jaccompanied by the usual sampan, she set off and made the crossing successfully, landing without feeling tired in any way, bat getting ver; sunburnt about the face. She tool rather a longer, course than usual through not noticing a nearer spot to the mainland than the bench at which she landed, near HIMS. Hermes' anchorage,
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