REPORTED DESTRUCTION OF ZEPPELINS
GERMAN GOVERNMENT PLEADS IGNORANCE. (Rec. September 2, 0.25 p.m.) Paris, September 1. No confirmation of tho reported destruction of the German Zeppelins lias reached London, but the "Daily Express" Berlin correspondent states that tho roDort is current that a naval officer who has since disappeared ordered tho cutting of the suspensory cables, causing the airshins to crash to the ground within tho sheds. Tho German Foreign Offico is ignorant of details, and declares that It. had no complicity in the act of destruction. which, if it actually occurred, was possibly done by malcontents m order to embarrass tho Government with the Entente Powers. The number of airshins allegedly destroyed aro. variously staled at from ten to Iwelve.-Aus.-iN./,. I Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 289, 2 September 1919, Page 5
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124REPORTED DESTRUCTION OF ZEPPELINS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 289, 2 September 1919, Page 5
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