LOST AIRSHIP.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 3 January 1924, Page 5

LOST AIRSHIP.

THEORIES OF EXPERTS*.

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PARIS, Jan. 1. The Ministry of Marine points out that all the evidence suggests that the commander of the airship Dixmude was suddenly hurled into the sea while manoeuvring the vessel from the front cabin. This is confirmed by the fact that he was wearing sea boots^and had his night glasses suspended from his neck. The rest of the crew were apparently shut in the cabins beneath the airship>s hull. The cabins probably remained closed after the airship sank, and it is unlikely therefore that further bodies will be recovered till the next storm brings some of the cabins to the surface. The Dixmude fell into 250 feet Qf water, and it is impossible for divers to investigate, even if the approximate position were known. Some experts still assert that the hull of the Dixmude is drifting above the Sahara, with the machinery out of actien, and that the crew will be found crushed to death by their fall on the desert sands.