BY AIRSHIP TO CONSTANTINOPLE.
It was announced in* December that a German airman had flown, with stops, from Berlin to Mosul, on the Tigris. Incidental to the conferring* ■ of an honorary degree, upon Professor Schutte inventor: of the Schutte-Lans wooden-framo airship,, it has been made pnbbc in Berhn that a SchutteLanz some time ago accomplished the longest airship crnise on record Germany to Constantinople. The paragraph issued gemi-officially says • "Regarding tie technical developments which nave taken jplace in the construction of S.-L.. airsoips - durin flr ' - the war nothing has reached tbo pu£ lie for military. reasons, but it is an open sccret that these vessals have been associated in very,, eminent degree with onr aerial sue- - !1 ocsses on land and sea. In view of V the Constantinople cruise, we may be sure that there have been bighlv iu-.'-j treating improvements in theS.-L.j. >] which. However, may not become.gene- !. j
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16144, 23 February 1918, Page 7
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149BY AIRSHIP TO CONSTANTINOPLE. Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16144, 23 February 1918, Page 7
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