GRAF ZEPPELIN.
START ON MEDITERRANEAN FLIGHT. YOUNG STOWAWAY DISCOVERED. (Received Monday, 5.5 p.m.) BERLIN, March 25. News from Friedrichshafen states that the Graf Zeppelin left at midnight, despite strong ground winds, and quickly disappeared in the direction of Basle upon her Mediterranean tour of five thousand miles. At the last moment, a young waiter was discovered hidden in the hangar of the Graf Zeppelin. He pleaded that it was his ene ambition to become a pilot and he thought he might achieve his aim if he smuggled himself aboard' the airship.— (Australian Press Association—United Service). (A previous message stated that the return route from Palestine will be longer than the trans-Atlantic journey. The airship will carry forty pasesngers, including the President and several members of the Reiestag.)
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Wairarapa Age, 26 March 1929, Page 5
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