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8.S. "ELNEST SIMONS.” COMPAGNIES DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES
THE TOTAL LOSS OF THE ZEPPELIN AIRSHIP.
TAE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY SEPT MBER 7rn, 1908.
COUNT SEPPELIN'S TRIATE.
swept away, and destroyed. For that the No absolutely dependable report is to hand | The total diatation covered in the eleven-and- Count blamed the troson ground, in which he detailing the esuse which led to the explosion,arter hours fight was about 270 miles. declared his anchors could obtain no grip bus the sccount which seems most trustworthy This gives an average of some 24 miles an hour; THE REMARKAḍLE DISASTER DESCRIDED.
He has since ever maintained that, properly in that the escaping gas from the barsting bags On the return journey the airship travelled for anchored, his sleship would ride out by came into contact with heated portions of the about sight hours down to the time at which it Berlin, August 5th.
weather in the open country. This however. mashfuerg When the balloon lighted on the was again obliged to dercond at Echterdinger, Count Zeppelin's splendid airship, for months would appear to be by no means certain, or field at Echterdagen there were also only very sad the alatause was about 90 miles, so that past the cynosure of the world' oyer is now may sure that to day ne presations more. It has not merely been damaged or were neglect L. By an opte ooincidence, Mele 10 precautione taken to anchor 1. this mean sped was less than half that attained wrecked, or even destroyed; it has been anni. praationily avery paper in Berlin this evening rigs Folger vs to have been placed on two during the outward pissaga. hilated. The prond fabele has been utterly prints a leading artele in which yesterday ropos faning the sirship to stakos driven luto.
the gruand. consumed by an explosion, the culmination of a
in trestid cruise
as conclusive proof of the saries, of misuses, and has disappeared of a the fasl
Cornt's definitivə face of the earth. This disaster occurred nest from through Switzerland neither in the un-atructed by Corsi Zeppelin, who has devoted
Buoc, though, quite spart
The ship which has just come to grief at it ceme up to the Staltgal is the fourth which has been con Eoktordiagan, village six miles to the south of Statigart, where the Corat had been obliged briken duration of the sight or in the diftus greater pr of the privat forlane during for a second time to interrupt his twenty-font-calties of navigation triumphantly overenime; hour voyage and to descond on to terra-firma.
the past ten years to the problem of serial Davi Bot terdingen, Ang, stb. The destruction of the airship obecnered in 1898. It was 12ft, long 381t. in He demonstrated his ability to do this, but before the eyes of a crowd estimated at from The seat fente of the Count's dealga is that gation. Ho completed his first dirigible ballood before the gas which was hecessary for him to
diameter.. resume bis journey could arrive from Fried 10,000 to 50,000 people: *****
instead of making the balloon or gasbag portion compartment with the ides that if one in one, he dis des it into a number of separate
give the serca ta folent floating power.
bajonet" it damaged, the others still
richs for the dread the anchorage, and vote! broke away form in anchorage, and before it. bad drifted very far, blew up with terrifle report.
Humanity, which has watched the Count's efforts with so much interest, will deeply sym. overtaken him, Yesterday he was sailing pathise with him in the terrible tragedy which triumphantly through the air, to the accom ing. All Germany was ringing with praise of psalment of almost unbroken rear of choar the man who had brought in new era, and opened up to his Fatherland the prospect of hitherto andreamt of national achievements. To-day he stands sadly by a little heap of waste metal, all that remains of the beautiful steno ture which had borne ap these high hopes. After the anorise of his Jo, time, and fortune to the working out of his idas, after braving many a malicious stroke of late, and disregarding the polits ridiaule of the soientific world, he seemed, in the evening of his career, on the point of realising almost unexampled stocess. Now all his fair propects have been dashed to the ground,
.
MYSTERIOUS DESCENT.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES The crowning explosion, which has not yet been explained, would appear not to have been an icoident essential to the circumstances of the case. Without it, however, the sirship world have been little better than a worthless derelist, and the whole course of the latest triat would seem to show that it was rather premature to regard the Zeppelin invention in its present stage as a fasl sointios of the problem of aerial navigation. The German publio had become:80 Intexíoiled with the rosnita satually attained that moreral papers gravely declared that the Count's descent on the Raine ev.ning deliberately carried out, though-all accounts
NOTICE.
ONSIGNEES of Cargo from London ex 68. “* Dordogang Anaam, from Havre 51. sa. Dordogne," from Bordeaux ex ee. "Ville de Lorient" in connection with above · Steamery, are hereby
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over Echterdingen, struck the balloon at its A andden violent thunderstorm, breaking moorings, and blew one of the oara into the air. It fell back, striking the ground, and a motor exploded, setting are to the adjoining peris of
sirship.
-the
air with the sending or were svetoly down the airship, and were dragged lato the Several soldiere, who were helping to hold
injured by the explosion.
Nothing could now be done, and the blazing airship was caught by the storm, and driven up into their, where it was completely annihilated. known. The asset number of the lujured is not yet
Count Z ppelia watshed the destruction of his life's work in deep despair. After all was over he was brought to Echterdingen in a
pers
Bria, August 5th
Dr. von Bothmann-Hollweg, Impal Sero tary of State for the Interior, a agrement with all the hoads of departments concerned, hay saotioned the payment to Count 2 ppelin of theream of 5000 marks (£25,0.0), provided for in the estimates for 8. a compensation to the Corant for his many years of self-aori- fising orative workin the building of at rable airshipa
Farther devils of the destruction of Coast Zeppelin's airship which have reached Bar in do not give a very clear picture of what at ly ourred, but, piecing the variona poconuts together, we learn the following:
In
July, 1800, the Zeppelin airship insde s
done, however, was slight, red in Qotober, 1900, obliged to descend into the lake. The damage partly succeed trip over Lake Comefree, but her steering gear went wrong, and she was
she made a suo mial flight. Five years later Count Zoppelia bad completed bis second ressel, which was fitted much more powerful engines, but his experiments with this craft were fer from sa singles, and on one occasion be and hepatons had a narrOW BEENDU from a desteor wreck. In Dacambir, 1903, he had recons mots the ship.
Be goat g 1 the rest sto
aroused in Germany: by these experiments that the Reichstag last year included in the Budget the sum of £20,000 for the parps of conducting trials" with dirigibls airships. About the same time, the Geriusa Government promised to buy. Count Zeppelin's two last ships for the sum of 100.000, provided the ollowing conditions. were complied with :-
.1 The First must be able to manœavre for twenty for hora the a
Must be able to id without injoeg to itself on water or earth; aud
3 Must be able to asosad to such a height that it cannot be injured by rifled o
On Jr'y I last Count Zeppelin made his arst. attempt to fail these terms. He succeeded in of Echterdingen, in consequence of motor de tion over Beitserlaui, in the course of which After the balloon had tanded on the outside carrying out ajhey of relve hours dura fects and an escape of gas, ocowds Booked to the be covered a distense of about 220 m les. The one from the whole countryside, until some-ship was a tad to have been under complete thing like 50,000 persons were present. It was control, to have gone against the wind, sad to belloved that the airship world repaired in bare ateered quite easily. that their Goods, with the exception of agree that be took further supplies of benalustall bud luft the baloon to repr'r to the village, The time tohle of the wrecked airship from
an hour or two at most Count Zeppelin him?
CENTER LAST JOURNEY Opizing, Treasure and Valuables, are being hours, a delay which was quite unnecessary to where he was engag
on board, and thongs he remained below four landed and stored at their risks into the
d in waiting to his friends its departure to the period of the disaster was bazatlon and/or extra hazardous Godowns of
engineers were busy with their machen. It Loft Friedrichshafen firmly moored, and that her anchors sened was remarked that the airship was not vary
Passed constance Parend Basel ... did not inspire much confdance. inadequate, and two ropes fastening her to poeta
Pases Colma -Strassbarg
Speyer Mannheim Darmstadt Desganded at Oppin
beim
the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Go Paper ability to alight on the com. about bis sucessful trip. Momwhils his two
Tanded hors.
́crl" "statements of the variega
reporters
confued area of a river-sarfans. No down.Co., Ltd, at Kowloon, whende delivery the cause of the descent and the aftegori- Buthentic partionlars have been issued as to Immy be obtained immediately after landing.
Optional Cargo will be forwarded on aaldier so diametriodly fem on another that it
or intimation is received from the Consignees would be waste of time to repeat any of them. before NOON, TO-DAY, requesting it to be It may, however, be reg runde ungnestionable Hilla of Lading will be countersigned by the that he descent was made babe it was held to Undoraigned Goods remaining unclaimed after
be impossible to complete the trip to Mayence MONDAY, the ith Eeptember, at Noon, will be and return to Friedrichshafes wit abject to seat and landing charges
While tous aurahin lagun the Rise last even ing it was inspoo od the Ea eror's three The Crown Princess of Gropos, the Hereditary Princess of Meinlagen, and Prinos Carl of Hesse, who scrived on the scene is
All claims must be sant in to me on or before the 7th Sept., or they will not be recognised.
All damaged packages will ba saninined ou MONDAY, the 7th Sept., at 3 P.M..
No Fire Insurance has been effected.
P. NALIN,
Acting Agent.
Hongkong, 31st August, 1908."
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,
THE P. & 0. S., N. Co.'s Steamer
Tin
"DEVANHA"
FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND
STRAITS
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Consigness of Cargo by the above-named vessel are hereby informed that their goods are being landed and placed AT THEIR RISK in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godowa Company Godown at Kowloon, where each
Sisterr
automobile
There were about forty men of the Stuttgart Garrison troops on the ground rendering what assistans thog could, most of them hanging on to the surship stendring har, ha
With
ʼn extraordinary suddenness astorm which' bad bega noticed gathering in the north was upon them striking the airship's bros?sidė, The grain bounded from its moorings, carry- ing severe sold are along with it, who dropped, suffering only slight injuries. The balloon however at various heights to the ground. dareared along the fields carrying the two eng
peers, one of whom dropped at a height of twenty metree, suffering considerable injuries, the other remaining in his gondols.
ZETURN JOURNEY BEGUN. The rent was made at ball-past ten, and twenty minutes later the earostat appeared over Mayence. Here it turned and proceeded in the direction from which it had come. The
When the airship" bad_rashed about 600 night was dark, and all that could be seen of it metres ita course was suddenly stopped, as its from the earth were two tiny twinkling lights and the feout of the balloon suddenly lurebod anchor became entangled in some fruit trees, fore and aft, but hundreds of thousands were still on the look-out, and the serial craft was earthwards. In a moment the huge bulk of the greeted everywhere, as in the daytime, with the ship smote the grond violently, and almost Bring of iutes the staging of Dentgebland: instanevusly white clouds of smoke were seen Dentschland über alles, and volleys of voel-issuing from the stern. Thousands were ferous obearing. Between one and two in the ashing to the spot, when suddenly their paca morning it passed over Mannheim for a second was stopped by a torrida report caused by the time, and it then left the valley of the Khipe explosion of the banzine reservoirs. Thick and best away eastwards towards Stuttgart. lamas of smoke onveloped the e' ship, and everyone knew that the proud aerostat was destroy L
Was signalled from Ludwigsburg at quarter past fire, and thence the news of its
When the wind blew the smoke aside there
consignment will be sorted out mark by mark, approach was telephoned to the Württemberg no Vestige of it. On the ground lay
and delivery can be obtained ne-o as the Goods are landed.
This ressel brings on Cargo'
From London, &d., ez as. “ Victoris," From Australia ex 8.0, "Himalaya." From Calentta, ex sa "Borneo," From Parsian Gulf sx B, I. . N. &
B.S. N. Co's Steamers, Optional goods will be landed here (poless instructions are given to the contrary within 6 hours.
Goode not clearod by the 8th inst, abefг.. will be subject to rent
No Fire Insurance will be effected by my in any paze whatever.
Damaged packages must be left in the Go derns for examination by the Consignees and the Company's representatives at an appointed hour. All Claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here, after which date they cannot be recognised. No Claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns.
F. J. ABBOTT, Acting Saparintendent. "Hongkong, 2nd September, 1908.
BEN" LINE OF STEAMERS.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
8.S. "BENVENUE," FROM MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAITS.
ONSIGNEES of Cargore hereby inferred that all Goods are being lauded at their risk into the hazardous sad/or extre hasardons Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godern Company, Ltd, whence and/or from the whare delivery may be obtained.
No Claims will be writted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining andelivered after the 19th lush, will be subject to rent.
All Claims against the Steamer must be pre sented to the Undersigned on or before the 17th inst., or they will not be recognized.
to
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are
be left in the Godowns, where they wil be
examined on the 10th inst, at 11 AM
No Fire Insurance has been affected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
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A few minutes later the roofs of the town were covered with oroited spectators, who raised the customary demonstrations so the airship zailed above their heads The Count responded by exeenting several mandavres to dampastrate the ease with which the merontat could beatsored in either a horizontal or a vertical direction.
The whole fearful or no did not neempy fiva. Meanwhite an enormous orond had assembled minutes. Massagers were sent at once to the on the shores of Lake Constance to welcome the village to inform Count Zeppelin of the occur. airship back to port. The King of Württem
rence. Though in a naroxysm of grief, the berg himself tuned out nonenalty early to greet Cornid nothing, howed gravely to the the Count on his arrival Bat hear followed few minutos spent in gazing at the wreck of all temaliaens gresting of the crowds. After a hour, and straining opas could still see no ans ploions speck on the horis m. At last an argent his hopes, he hastened to Stuttgart and then | telegram came to say that the airship had been home to Friedrichshafen where he arrived late obliged to demend at Echterdinges, and that a supply of hydrogen must be despatched by special express train to enable it to proseed on its way. What exactly had occurred is another of the mysteries of this ill-fated voyaga. Over I hear to my sinceres regret than your Stuttgart the Count fang out a message which boon has been destroyed by a thunderstorm implied that he had no fears of being able to and express to you in this extremely unfortunate complete his oraias, yat only six miles further mishap my heartiest sympathy, the more 80 on it was necessary to descend. An evan stretch because I and the whole of Germany believed of cultivated land offered a favourable that we had every reason to be able to congratu tunity for alighting, and it may boro bo ralat you on the glorious enuclusion of your marked that the almost complete absonds of grand and epoch-making achievement, Never- hedges, wall, and forces in the agricultural dietheless, the success which was attained must be tricts on the Continent affords facilities for the most highly appreciat 1 and” muạt console you descent of sirships of the Zeppelin type which for the misfortune you have experienced,” with their length of between four and Eve bun
GERMAN NATIONAL SYMPATHY. dred feet, they would very rarely find in the
Berlin, August 6th. rural parts of England. Apperently, the only The Emperor, and follow og him every damage caused in coming to earth was the owned bead in Germany, has sent a message breaking of one metal rod. The airship was Ministers, munisipalities, and other public
of the heartiest sympathy to Count Zeppelin SCOTCH WHISKY. anchored, and no time was last in sending for bodies have followed their example. A raighty more gas. Two Atters were also summoned from the Daimler works at Cannstatt, and came ware of sympathy has spread over the entire scurrying in with their tools in an automobile, land. High and low, rich and poor, ucite in s Troops were also sent for to help to manipulate message of encouragement to the tipu, who brg- the airship in onse the wind should get up and become almost a national idot, to preserve order among the public. The latter
Yesterday evening, when the Minister of the procantion was necessary, for the entire pop sent 50,000 marks to Count Zeppelin out of Interior hoard the news of the catastrophe, he- lation of stattgart locked out to have a closer 2,000,000 marks voted by the Reichstag for view of the strange tessel, and all through the experimenting with ship. morning special traids were run to the scene.
From private THE VETANTEOPHE
sourcos, something like 1,500,000 marks have It was not
t quite carlain whether it would be been sent to Count, Zeppelin. Newpapers great possible to get the serostat away again before, and small, numerous banks, exchanges, e to-morrow, but nine o'clock this evening was opened subscription lists. This afternoon the oarliest hour mentioned for a continuation on the Berlin Exchange 89,099 marks
of the voyage. All wont wall fill on the stroke. Eubscribed.
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of three, when a sudden and violant storm arose. It is too early yet to speculate on what will be Fall particulars of the subsequent events have the next steps which will be taken by the Count Acouring to the reports which have reached
not yet been received here. Bat it appears that Barlin he is fully determined to begin with his the airship was at one turn away from its fifth airship as soon as possible. It is even. meorings drifted off in a south-
dirent
yards when it was noticed to bond in the middle. spring. Immediately afterwards a vast pillar of flame shot up towards the sky, leaving behind it a donae cloud of stake. At the same time there was a tremendous report, When the smoke cleared away nothing more was to be seen of the airship.
On the only previous occasions on which a Zeppolia airship has descented on land and not on wafer it was also overtaken by a storm,
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