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Show WIZARD OF THE AIR. Count Zeppelin Travels 456 Miles in His New Airship Without Landing. Berlin. Count Zeppelin, whose remarkable re-markable performances in Ms first airship air-ship brought unbounded honor to the inventor, on Sunday accomplished the most striking feat in his career. He guided his Zeppelin II from Friedrichs-hafen Friedrichs-hafen to Bitterfeld, a distance of more than 456 miles, without landing. -The journey lasted nearly twenty-two hours. Count Zeppelin, who personally was in charge of the airship and whose hand was at the tiller during the greater part of the journey, had not allowed a word to be made public relative rel-ative to his intention to undertake an endurance trip. It was, however, common knowledge that he purposed to seize the first favorable opportunity opportu-nity to proceed to Berlin in his newest craft, Zeppelin II, which was rebuilt to displace the one destroyed near lEchterdingen. |