GERMAN AIRSHIP
ENGLAND VISITED
FLIGHT OVER DOCKS
PORTSMOUTH NAVAL BASE
SIGNIFICANT PACTS By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received July G, 5.25 p.m.) LONDON, July 5 Thousands of holiday-makers today watched the German airship Hindenburg move up over the Bristol Channel, after which she flew over Southampton Docks, the Portsmouth naval dockyard and the Southampton, Shoreham and Thorney Island aerodromes. The visit adds significance to questions which are to be asked in the House of Commons on the subject. The Hindenburg's altitude was estimated at 900 ft. Watchers easily descried the heads and shoulders of members of her crew. BRITISH COMPLAINTS COMMENT FROM BERLIN denial of espionage BERLIN, July 5 The German Air Ministry, commenting on reported British complaints that the German airship Hindenburg new over British industrial districts with a view to espionage, officially announces: "We have no knowledge of an official British objection. If one of the Zeppelins flew over industrial regions, it j was only because the airship's welfare demanded it."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22464, 7 July 1936, Page 9
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