GRAF ZEPPELIN CRUISE
URAL MOUNTAINS CROSSED,
WIDE. DEVIATION. LIKELY, . (Australian Press Association.) (Received noon.) FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, August 17. The Graf ■ Zeppelin, in the course of her first stage from here to Tokio in her round-the-world cruise, passed over the Ural Mountains on the frontier of Europe and Asia. Thus in 36 hours she has .covered 2600 miles.
Owing to bad weather, the dirigible may be compelled to go as far afield as the Arctic zone.
Later, a wireless message picked up by. United States warships in the Orient says the Graf Zeppelin is flying steadily. The conditions .are excellent, and she is making 62 miles an hour.
The airship 'whs . oyer Yakutsk, Siberia, today. . . ~
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Northern Advocate, 19 August 1929, Page 5
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