GRAF ZEPPELIN
THE DEPARTURE.
(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.;
LONDON, May 16. The Graf Zeppelin started at 5.15 o’clock on its flight- to America.
AIRSHIP DEPARTS.
A STOWAWAY INCIDENT.
(Received this day at 8 a.m.) BERLIN, May 17
A desperate last-minute effort to stow away on the Graf Zeppelin Was made by a young Bavarian tailor. As tbe command was given to open the doors of the lmngilr, tbe special guard noticed a man high up in tbe network of hangar girders, ready to jump on the top of the dirigible. The start was delayed while the guard climbed to the roof and arrested the tailor, Adolf Link, who admits lie planned to climb to the safety valve on the roof to the creWs or u ters.
The officers of the Zeppelin assert they were serious in announcing that any stowaway found after the start would he pitched overboard with a parachute.
Captain Lehmann,. First Officer, states that leuna gas, which is heavier than the usual blue gas, is used on this trip. The fuel aboard is sufficient for 130 hours, whereas it is anticipated the flight will occupy eighty-six hours, arriving at New York oh Sunday morning. BERLIN, May 16. Five Swiss aeroplanes escorted the Zeppelin to the frontier where Captain Eckener headed north to the Loire, and thence probably to Azores. GRAF BREAKS DOWN. (Received this day at 9. a.m.l NEW YORK, May 16. Columbia Broadcasting Company” today received a bulletin from a correspondent abroad that the Graf Zeppelin had broken two motors and was heading back.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 May 1929, Page 5
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