GRAF ZEPPELIN.
MAKING STEADY PROGRESS.
United Pros* Association —By Kls-rtric Holograph Copyright.) fAustralian Press Association.)
LONDON, Aug. IS
The Graf Zeppelin, flying round the world from Lakehurst and Friedrichshafen, is progressing steadily under excellent conditions and malting 62 miles an hour, the United States Pacific fleet in the Orient was advised by radio. The Zeppelin was over Yakutsk, Siberia, on Sunday. Yakutsk is 130 W. longitude, 62 .N. latitude. When the Zeppelin passed over the Ural mountains and the frontier of Europe and Asia on Friday it had, in 36 hours, covered 2600 miles.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 19 August 1929, Page 5
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