EX-KAISER ON FLYING

Evening Star, Issue 19698, 27 October 1927, Page 9

EX-KAISER ON FLYING

THE TRANSATLANTIC FIASCO AFTER-THE-EVENT KNOWLEDGE It now appears, .sarcastically remarks iho Berlin correspondent of tho London ‘Daily Telegraphthat the fiasco of tlio J linkers transatlantic flight was due to the Republican -form of Germany’s Government. That is to be inferred from a long telegram sent by tho ex-Kaiser from Doom in reply to a report on the attempt telegraphed to him by the Bremen’s passenger, Baron A 7 on Hunoield, the sou of a AVilhclmiau general, who died while the last preparations were being made in Dessau. Deposition and exile have evidently not impaired tho universal specialism of AVilbolm lE, and he Jays down rules which will ensure the success of transatlantic flights in the future. Unfortunately, tho Conservative Press, which prints Ids message, does not give the first part of it texiually, but only its “general souse,” which, it is stated, is ns follows;

“ The grace of God has guarded tile flyers from grave disaster. It would have been better if they had delayed the start, for the weather situation in the west and on the ocean was at that timo the most unfavorable imaginable. Thunderstorms with deluges of rain and heavy squalls were passing over Holland. Throe minima were reported to ho approaching one after the other from the Atlantic.” The ex-Kaiser further draws attention to the fact that hurricane weather prevailed on the American coast, and that Berlin foretold an irruption of Polar air which afterwards occurred at Doorn, being accompanied by thunder. After expressing the opinion that the return fiom the west of Ireland to Dessau in half a day was a remarkable performance, and that both the machine and the engine acquitted themselves brilliantly, the ex-Kaiser continues:— “ 1 consider the too premature advertisement of a world record unseemly and im-Gennau. After a flight to America it will always be time enough to boast of the achievement. It would have been better, instead of the muchadmired preparatory flight between Dessau and Leipzig, to have had it as far as is possible in Germany over a distance equal to that of the ocean line to be traversed—as, for instance, Konigsherg, Dresden, Munich, Frankfort, “ Hamburg, Stettin, Konigsherg, Dessau. Then there would have been an opportunity of testing various weather conditions and getting to know and overcoming difficulties.” Unfortunately, remarked the correspondent, the chief result of the exKaisor’s injunctions was likely to be •sarcastic comments in the Democratic Press,.