KAISER AND WAR ZEPPELINS
WHY AIRSHIP CREW WAS RESCUED.
-"Times'* «nd Sydney "Sun" Services. - (Received April 8, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Ar>ril 7. j The ,T Cologne Gazette", says that the series of air raids on Britain is due jto a conversation between the Kaiser | and Count von Zeppelin, who was reI 1 jcently summoned to headquarters. The Gazette " regrets the loss of Lls, and adds that Britain only saved the crew she was afraid to repeat the 'shameful act of the King Stephen. (In February last the Grimsby trawler King Stephen discovered the Zeppelin Ll9 in a sinking condition in the "North Sea. The commander of the Zeppelin, who, with his men, had crawled out along the envelope, offered the trawler's skipper a big sum to take his men off, but as there were twenty paen on the Zeppelin, some of them armed, the trawler's crew feared that they would be overpowered, and refusing to take any risks with the Huns, '*tearned away.)
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11669, 8 April 1916, Page 1
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