SAFELY OVER.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 259, 1 November 1928, Page 7

SAFELY OVER.

ATLANTIC RECROSSED.

German Zeppelin Sighted Over

Bay Of Biscay.

HOME ON THURSDAY ?

(Australian Press Assn.—United Service.)

(Received 10 a.m.)

LONDON, October 31,

Xt "fj Wireless messa &e from the liner .Naldera states that the vessel sighted the German Zeppelin LZI27 over the Bay of Biscay on the latter's return flight irom America to Germany. Latest advices state that the Zeppelin was 1700 miles south-west of Brest. It is not expected that it will reach Friedrichshafen before to-morrow morning.

An earlier message stated that at midnight the airship was rapidly approaching the coast of Ireland. The message came by wireless from the Dutch steamer Westerdijk. . Th® position of the airship at . that time was about 560 miles due west of the extreme south-west point on the Irish coast. Fair weather was being experienced. " At 6 a.m. the airship was 280 miles from the south coast of Ireland. TOUCH WITH BRITAIN. PROGRESS REPORTED. (British Official Wireless.J (Received 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, October 31. At seven o'clock this morning the Zeppelin was sighted 280 miles southwest of Ireland, and at ten o'clock she was reported 140 miles west of Brest. At 11.20 the British airship station at Cardigton in Bedfordshire picked up a wireless message from tTie airship saying: "Over the Bay of Biscay." BID FOR FORTUNE. Young Stowaway In Airship Receiving Many Offers. HITCHED WAGON TO STAR. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 1 p.m.) LONDON, October 31. Clarence Terhune, the 18-year-old youth who stowed away on the Graf Zeppelin, and is now engaged in washing dishes for the passengers, seems to have hitched his wagon to a star, as already many offers have been made for his services.

A Hamburg circus proprietor has wirelessed offering him a job as a wild animal tamer. If he is disinclined to take this, a large department store in Aix-la-Chapelle is offering him a big position as a salesman. Incidentally, he has been offered £500 to appear in a German film.-

Germany generally regards the youth's feat in the sporting spirit. The American Consul at Stuttgart says that provided Dr. Eckener reports favourably on Terhune's conduct he will furnish the necessary papers to preclude the lad from being imprisoned. A rich American in Stuttgart says he is willing to defray the lad's passenger fare. Thus he will be safeguarded, whatever happens.

It is revealed also that the lad, by wireless, has sold the newspaper rights of his story for a large sum. A leading Berlin night club, the Casanova, makes the remarkable announcement that the stowaway has wirelessed reserving a table on the night of his arrival.