AERIAL NAVY.
GERMAN FLEET OF 20 ZEPPELINS. In the lobbies of the Reichstag on November 28 discussion oentred on what is now regarded as the certain appearance of German's first Aerial Navy Law. _ ■ It is stated on reliable .authority that the recommendations of the German War Office and Admiralty., include the ere-, ation, as a beginning, of a fleet of .twenty .Zeppelin .airships, of about 920,000 cubic feet capacity, and capable of travelling at fifty-one miles an hour and remaining aloft for four days and four nights without an' intermediate landing. Thoy are also to bo capable of carrying and discharging one ton of explosives. General von Moltke, Chief of the General Staff, it is reported, a few months ago unsuccessfully sought to induce the Government to brink in estimates for a fleet of twenty-five Zeppelins.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1641, 7 January 1913, Page 3
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136AERIAL NAVY. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1641, 7 January 1913, Page 3
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