AIRSHIPS FOR AUSTRALIA
OFFERED BY IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT. ■ (I?ec. February 22, 11.5 p.m.) London,- February lfl. The Air Ministry, on behalf of tho Imperial Government, has offered Australia six dirigible airships, witli sheds complete, hydrogen plant and other equipment- The sheds include an enormous steel hangar'2so feet square, 70 feet high, and weighing three thousand tons. Tho airships have seen war service, having been in the North Sea patrol,.engaged in hunting submarines. It is understood that if the offer is accepted tliey will not bo flown to Australia, as they have already been deflated preparatory to shipment. Tho Ministry has also offered to replace out-of-date aeroplanes given during the war to Australian flying corps 'bv private firms and others by twenty-five Bristol fighters with Siddolcy-Puma engines. These are quite apart from • tho hundred already given. Six months' mobilisation equipment has also been given with them. Tho latter is . valued at ,4000,000, and will replace five Australian squadrons on war basis— Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Aran. "
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 127, 23 February 1920, Page 7
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162AIRSHIPS FOR AUSTRALIA Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 127, 23 February 1920, Page 7
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