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era pbess association —copyright TOKIO, March 19. Another disaster betel the Navy dirigible of the S.S. Type, imported from England vluve or four years ago. It suddenly cau o nt tire and fell into the forest of Iga.aiii. The disaster was due io an expios.oa. xbe crew of live was all killed, and their bodies have been recovered. The dirigible was fiftyone metres long. TOKIO, March 19. Regarding the disaster to submarine 43, the Navy Office during subsequent attempts at rescue, stated that there was little hope of finding any survivors. This marks the loss of the second submarine since last August, when one sank off Kobe. Navql circles were further depressed when half an hour after submarine 43 sank, they were informed that the naval dirigible had caught fire while aloft and fell in Igaraki prefecture, north-east of Tokio, killing the crew of five. The commander’s was the only body found. The remainder probably leaped from the blazing airship before it plunged into the forest.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 21 March 1924, Page 3
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