GRAF ZEPPELIN.

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 30 August 1929, Page 9

GRAF ZEPPELIN.

LATE EDITION

RETURNING TO GERMANY. LEAVING ON SATURDAY NJGHT. ; Vusfralian Press Association—TJuited Service.) Received 11.30 a.m., to-day. NEW YORK, August 29. All the crew of the Zeppelin arc enthusiastic over the voyage. Captain Eckener announced that the dirigible would leave Lakehurst for Friedrickshafen at midnight on Saturday, under command of Captain Ernst Lehmann, as Captain Eckener was going to Washington to confer with the Oioodyear-Zeppelin loffieials. ILieut. Richardson told of the astonishment of people iwho saw the zeppelin in distant countries. “When people whom we saw on the ground sighted us they were frightened and almost without exception ran away as if the ship were a monster.

WAR TIME SERVICES. A RETICENT OFFICER. Up EW-trir 1 i. , > f*iiKtr»liai' Association. l Received 11 .5 a.m. to-day. NEW YORK, Aug. 29. Captain Lehmann, who .since the war has been principal aide to Captain Eckener, refused to speak of his war time services, but, asked if lie bad bombed London during the war. replied gravely: “I did, several times. Once I brought home a Zeppelin with 400 bullet holes in the fabric.”