For America

Southland Times, Issue 20614, 12 October 1928, Page 7

For America

Giant Airship

DEPARTURE FROM GERMANY Sixty Persons on Board (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) (Rec. 1 a.m.) London, October 11. The Zeppelin left Friedricshaven at 7.50 this morning for America. Sixty persons are aboard, of whom 20 are passengers, including the British journalist, Lady Drummond Hay, Senor Eira, repreeenting the Spanish Government, Commander Rosendahl, who commanded the American Los Angeles, Hero Gizessinski, the Prussian Minister of the Interior, and three experts of the Ministry of Transport. The weather is calm and the route is being fixed in accordance with wireless weather reports received en route. The first report will be made from Bale (Switzerland). The Berlin correspondent of The Times says it is estimated that the Zeppelin’s flight to America will occupy between 60 and 70 hours. Count Brandestein, the late Count Zeppelin’s son-in-law, is also a passenger. Six Press representatives and two cinema operators are included in the complement. The Zeppelin circled over the hangar and dropped flowers, the band playing “Deutschland Über Alles.” It then sped off at 50 miles an hour and passed Bale at 9.30. Herr Von Eckner plans to reach New York on Sunday morning. He has already been advised of heavy storms in the Atlantic and, if necessary, will head for the African coast and then via Azores to dodge the storms.