"NOT SABOTAGE"

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 95, 8 May 1937, Page 5

"NOT SABOTAGE"

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Crush Was Accidental, Say Germans INQUIRY BY SENATE

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(Received 8, IU.su a.m.) MONTREAL, May 7. General von Boetticher, German Air Attache, who accompanied the German Ambassador to Lakehurst, stated that it was impogsible that the crash was caused by the firing of an incendiary bullet into the gasbag, whieh was one of the many sabotaging xumours. The Ambassador, Herr Hans Luther, after talks with many of the survivors, reiterated his faith in lighter-than-air craft. He said "dt was 'just an aecident." , General Hermann Goenng eabled Commander Rosepdahl, of the Lakehurst Naval Station, who was^ a survivor frpm the Shonandoah dirigible, "Thanks fpr your herpic rescue. _ It was beautiful aud is proof of the spirit that is linking the airmen of all nations." Three morq victims have been recovered from the wreckage. One women, ostensibly a stewaTdess, was surprisingly found in the contrql room, and this discovery is regarded qf sueh importance that an investigation han begun. .Four people are still unaccounted for And are now believed to have been cremated. • The boxer Max Schmeling, revealed that he had capcelled his" trip on the Hiudenbnrg, due to the necessity to arrive a day earlier in America.