HUGE DIRIGIBLE
FROM UNITED STATES. GREAT DEFENCE FACTOR. CABLE—PEESS ASSN-—COPYRIGHT • New York, March 7.
Rear-Admiral Moffett in a speech, said that the United States’ navy was now building a rigid dirigible, utilising helium, which will make a tour of the Avorld, probably proceeding to the North or South Pole for scientific purposes. The dirigible will embody the latest improvements in aeronautic science, capable of long sustained voyages carrying heavy loads. Germany is building for the United States similar craft. Moffett predicted that the dirigible ivould be a tremendous factor/ in national defence, and stressed the fact that aeronautics produced a serious defence problem for the United States. In view of the nearness of foreign island possessions from the American main coast, notably the West Indies, the United States could easily be subjected to bombing from these, places as centres of operations.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18063, 9 March 1923, Page 7
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