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5 June 1909
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SUPPOSED AIRSHIP
PROVES A MIRAGE
Atmospheric Freak in Imperial
Valley Mystified the
Residents.
13 June 1909
113
FRANCE IS STIRRED
BY ZEPPELIN'S
SUCCESS
Now Making Plans for Policing
Air Along the Country's
Border Line.
NATIONAL ACTION TAKEN.
Experts Show the Count Could
Have Skirted British
Coast..
!
IMPERIAL
June 4.-After mystify-
ing people in all parts of the Imperial!
valley. It is now learned that the sup-
(posed airship, which was said by vari-
ons people to have been seen
eral evenings at twilight over Salton
AS я mirage. The mirage
en
SPV-
Fea.
was
conspicuous this
evening
for A
minutes, and
WAS
viewed with
17011-
derment by many people. as to-night
It took the form of a row of tents and
trees inverted, that, hung:
cottonwood
in clear outlines for a time hetween t
sunset and dark in the sky.
☐ Viewed less distinctly than it was
to night, the phenomena might easily
have been mistaken for an airship. Be-
fore there 1775 less vegetation here.
the mirage was A common sight over
the Salton sea.
June
1909
AIRSHIPS THAT
CARRY BIG GUNS
Great Success Said to Have
Been Attained by the
Japanese..
VICTORIA (R. C.). June. That
Ar of
Invented droplanes
experts i
Nott'th
heve here to ful
the demonstration that RIFTEN
er heals y
'n 11 be carried w
11. story brought by the steamalte
Monteagic. IL
stated that A
of experts have been engaged for
e time past in perfecting an alt
+tip Invented
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airal
the us
Patel that the
liv
12x
Yamad abure,
successful during
ning maint. In-
fed by alta in capable of
1.LITER a hensy land and miting
of moderate calther, and is
tored readily.
Another Invention perfected a fla
tells held before the army experts 1
an airship destroyer fitted with
plosive shells which explode autoantic
on contact with another airship.
being pract
tally a.Pounterpart of the
marine torpedo destroyer applied to
Rectal navigation. Both inventiet
inve been secured by the, thilitary au-
thorities.
Special Dispatch to the Trentele."
PARIS June 2.Count Zeppelin's
record fight in he airship in Germany
has had the immediate effect of com-
France. To-
pelling official action
day an important meeting was held at
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where
delegates of all French Ministers drew
up plans for potteink the afr.
Mayors and other at nistration au-
thorities of villake And Tall towns
have been perplexed to what to do
when foreign balloons alighted in their
territory. The Commission will decide
questions. arising in this connection
from three points of view-nations de-
fense, custom-house and police. To-day
the Commission reported in favor of
asking the great powers to combine on
International legislation and sukkaated
that cards of identification be Insund by
national authorities which would pre-
tha
rent troubles now arting from
landing of French aeronauts in foreign
territory or of foreign aeronauts
France.
:
in
RESTIT OF LATEST FLIGHT.
BERLIN. June 3.-German aeronauts
who are making a critical study of
Count Zeppelin's lateat maht are con-
Ivinced that he has established the in-
contestable superiority of the MEM
halloon" over other types. The recent
trip. In apite of the art at the
landing, fa held to have afforded final
proof that Airigibles must be reckoned
with hereafter An a potent factor in
actual campaigning.
Captain Hildebrand, " well-known
expert, points out that Count Zeppelin'
I was able to cover 20 miles with his
original supply of gas and benzine.
Had the airship started from Mets
It could have made a round trip bver
la considerable partion of France, or.
starting from Cologne, It would have
Ralled over London and taken accurate
cheervations along the English Coant.
What at mata arouse the admira-
tion of the experts la Count Zeppelin's
fent of patchink up tha Mamaged
halloon in an open field and contin-
uing, the journey.
ZEPPELIN SHIP AT HOME..
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, June 2-The
Zeppelin airship, after having made its
way by stages from Goeppingen, ar
rived here at o'clock this morning
and descended successfully to the
hed
the
floating
on
Laka of Con-
stance The damages sustained at the
end of the prolonged nicht of Sunday
and Monday will be repaired to-day.
The Emperor has aent, the following
"Con
telegram to Count Zeppelin:
Kratulations on your remarkable, trip
10' Friederichshafen
with the pro-
which
visionally repared airship.
proves the capacity of the rta aya-1
stem. As I shall he absent from Stor-
flin six weeks from now, I suggest that
The Berlin trip he undertaken Au-
Runt 26th."
Yesterday in a diapatab to the Fim-
peror, Tount Zeppelin said that in alx!
weeks he hoped to be able to report to
him at Berlin with his afrship.