ELABORATE HOAX
SUPPOSED SWIM ACROSS Atlantic FORTY THOUSAND PEOPLE WELCOME ARRIVAL STUDENTS’ SCHEME TO COLLECT MONEY FOR CHARITY f (United Press -'Assn.—Copyright.) LONDON', dan. id. Glasgow undergraduates organised an elaborate hoax in the interests ot charity. They announced that an American student Ane Hapenny, was swimming the Atlantic. They published daily bulletins of his progress from New York. Forty thousand people packed the bridges and streets to witness his arrival.
Accompanied by a row boat, with a piper seated in the bows skirling merrily, the swimmer received a magnificent reception. He landeu amid cheering, dressed at a.quayside shed and drove through the streets seated in a taxi crying his golden curls and acknowledging the cheers of the crowd. This revealed that the swimmer was a'well-known under-graduate and had swam only a quarter of a mile. Meanwhile, the students were busy collecting among the crowd on behalf of the hospital.—Sun.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10306, 15 January 1927, Page 7
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149ELABORATE HOAX Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10306, 15 January 1927, Page 7
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