ZEPPELIN'S MASTER
1 THE VETERAN AERONAUT'S jFEAR., By Tclecranh—Press Association-Oonytlehl (Reo. May 13, 9.35 p.m.) Berlin, May 13. The veteran balloonist, Count Zeppelin (pioneer of the rigid style of dirigible airship, with an aluminium gasonvelopo divided into compartments), has created a sensation by a speech made by him in Berlin. Count Zeppelin said ho feared that tho Kaiser had come. undor tho influence of a cu'rront working against him and his airship system in the Ministry of War.
[Count Zoppelin, .now 70 years of age, is the constructor of lmge dirigible balloons which have accomplished remarkable flights. Ho was for many years.an officer in the army, ami saw active .service' in the Franco-German War. All his life he has been an enthusiastic aerial experimenter. His first long flight was in 1900. . His successes afchieved by persistence under many difficulties, liava been enthusiastically acclaimed by tho Gorman nation, who subscribed liberally —on the occasion of a disaster to one of tho Zeppelins in 1908—in order that he might bo financially nblo to continue his ■labours. It has been known for some time that tho German Ministry of War does not see eye to eye. with tho veteran Count]
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 817, 14 May 1910, Page 5
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197ZEPPELIN'S MASTER Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 817, 14 May 1910, Page 5
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