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Yesterday was a veritable “Black Friday” for the whole of Germany following the disaster to the giant dirigible Hindenburg.
Casualty Figures
U.S. AND HELIUM
SUPPLIES.
New York, To-day. Flags draped with black appeared at every
Deeply shocked by the Hinden- masthead in the country in the early hours of the burg disaster, the Senate mili- morning, and by noon hundreds of houses had beentary affairs committee yesterday draped with black crepe.
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approved a Bill to liberalise the commercial sale and export · · of States has the monopoly. helium, of which the United
CAPT. LEHMANN
PASSES AWAY
Lakewood, New Jersey, To-day,
Captain Ernst Lehmann, famed zeppelin expert who was on the Hindenburg when she burst into flames, died in hospital last night. --Reuter.
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Refugees From Bilbao
British Destroyer Escort
La Rochelle, To-day-
THEATRES SUBSTITUTED DRAMAS FOR COMEDIES IN THEIR PROGRAMMES, AND THE WHOLE NATION WENT
The Bill would permit the ex- INTO MOURNING. MINATION TO CONTINUE CONSTRUCTION OF LIGHTER but whether this would allow the Escorted by a British destroyer,
UNDERLYING THE NATIONAL GRIEF IS A DEEP DETER.Port of quantities of helium that are "not of military importance," THAN AIR CRAFT. PROOF OF THIS IS PROVIDED IN THE sale of sufficient helium for oper- the Spanish trans-Atlantic liner FLOOD OF INSTANTANEOUS DONATIONS, RANGING FROM
Habana arrived here on Thursday LARGE SUMS TO SMALL AMOUNTS OF A FEW PFENNIGS, ating the zeppelins is not clear.
Meanwhile the latest an-night with 4,000 refugees from Bil- WHICH HAVE BEEN POURING INTO VARIOUS GOVERNMENT
nouncement of the casualties in bao. DEPARTMENTS.
The refugees disembarked the disaster gives 30 dead and early yesterday morning. missing and 68 survivors.
The first batch to march ashore CAPTAIN MAX PRUSS, COM- were 500 children, all singing the MANDER OF THE ILL-FATED Internationale and › raising their AIRSHIP, IS REPORTED TO BE fists in the Communist salute. IN CRITICAL CONDITION, After - medical examination, the WHILE THE CONDITION OF children were given food and dis- CAPTAIN. ERNST LEHMANN,tributed to their new homes by WHO WAS ACTING IN AN AD- train. Reuter. VISORY CAPACITY, IS, ALSO SERIOUS...
Most of the sums were accom- travel by airship was endangered panied by a note saying the con- by the use of hydrogen instead of tribution was towards the cost of helium. building a new žeppelin to replace the Hindenburg.
Detailed reports from Lakehurst describing the catastrophe crowd out every other item of news in the presa, whose Friday morning edi- tions were published with a heavy black edge round the front page.
The papers emphasise that it was the first accident to a German com- mercial zéppélin since November 16, 1909.
Expressions of sympathy are pouring into Germany from all over the world...
LONDON TRIBUTES In London the papers stress the masterly performance achieved by the wrecked airship.
AIR MINISTRY CONFERENCE Leading German aeronautical experts met at the Air Ministry in Berlin yesterday afternoon to de- termine what decisions should be taken consequent upon the disaster to the Hindenburg at Lakehurst on Thursday.
Among those present were Dr. Hugo Eckener, Dr. Duerr, Profes- sor Bock, Herr Hofmann. Professor Dickmann and Colonel Breithaupt. All of them will catch the Europa at Cherbourg this morning for New York.
It has already been announced. by the Zeppelin Company that the disaster will in no way af fect the regular voyages of the The famous Arctic explorer, Sir Graf Zeppelin to South America. Hubert Wilkins, who was one of It is also stated that construc- the passengers in the Hindenburg tion work on the new airship LZ 130 on her first flight to the United will be speeded up and she will States last year, stated yesterday make her first trial flights in Sep- that he personally had lost a num- tember.--Trang-Ocean. ber of friends in the catastrophe, since he was acquainted with near-
ly the whole crew.
FUTURE OF. AIRSHIPS
Sir Hubert, expressed his relief on hearing that Captain. Pruss, and Captain Lehmann were among the
John Drinkwater's Estate
London, To-day.
The estate of the post dramatist
survivors for their death, he said, and actor, John Drinkwater, who would have meant a great loss for died at the end of March has been the science of airship construction, proved at £1,577 British Wireless.
He said his belief in the rept, pelin bad not been shaken but thought it wbila advisable
smaller, typa in fy.
come
ture.
Sir Denniston Burney, comman- der of the ill-fated British airship R101, which crashed at Beauvais seven years ago, stated he had come to the conclusion that safety of
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KING'S MESSAGE: From London it is reported that Herr Hitler, says a message from the King has sent a telegram to Berlin, has personally contributed Herr Hitler stating that he was the sum of 30,000 marks to the deeply shocked by the news of the Hindenburg Relief Fund-Reuter
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