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Show KAISER'S NEW MT TO BE TRULY REGAL Plans Call for Vessel 528 Feet Long; Crew to Number Num-ber 455. SAFETY A BIG FACTOR German Colonial Office Considers Con-siders Use of Aeroplanes to Transport Diamonds. By FREDERICK WERNER. Special Cable to The Tribune. BERLIN, May 9. The kaiser's contempt for his 20-year-old yacht, the Hohen-zollern, Hohen-zollern, has long been known, end it ; is certain that the new imperial vessel, the Hohenzollern II, will be fitted in regal style. From the constructive details just officially given it would seem that the principal features are safety, comfort , and greater radius of action.' The new ship will be able to take on board 10U0 tons of coal and 600 tons of oil in place of scarcely more than 500 tons, which is the capacity of the older vessel. The speed will be rather more than eighteen knots, and, as the engine power and the tonnage are both considerably consid-erably higher, the coal consumption will be much greater. Nevertheless, the new Hohenzollern will be able to steam twice as far as her predecessor without need of new fuel. Built for Comfort. As regards comfort, it is only natural that a great improvement on the old Hohenzollern will be noticeable. The old ship is merely an adapted little cruiser, and its comforts have been improvised. With the new Hohenzollern things will be very different. Standing relatively high (a freeboard of twenty feet), there will be three decks above water, and all of them are to be more than usually well lighted. Safety, nevertheless, is the most marked note in the design. The double shell runs from stem to stern aDd reaches amidships to eight feet of longitudinal bulkheads, which run fully two-thirds of the lengtli of the ship. Cross bulkheads are unusually . numerous. The chief ones can be closed as far as the upper deck, whilst below the water line they are entirely en-tirely without doors. The vessel, therefore. there-fore. Is thought to be a pattern of security. se-curity. As regards power, the new Hohenzollern will- have ten water-tube boilers, of which three will be enuipped for oil fuel. The ship will be 528 feet long (tlie old -Hohenzollern is only S79 " feet loner), with a beam of sixty-two. feet ! and draft of nineteen feet. The tonnage ton-nage is estimated as 7300, as against 4250 ' for the present yacht. The crew will num- j her -155, as against 348 on the old vessel. Build New Air Craft. After some consideration of the special conditions affecting the use of aero- planes in tropical and semi -barbarous j quarters, the German colonial office is ! about to send a couple of aeroplanes to : the colony of Southwest Africa. They j will be used for army intelligence work, i the conveyance of mails and the trans- j port of doctors and medical equipment to : remote regions difficult of access. The aeroplanes wil! be disembarked at Swa- : kopmund, whence they will be transferred trans-ferred by rail to the flying station and ! sheds, which are already being constructed for them. , Four officers of the German colonial troops have been taking aviation lessons' at home and will accompany the aeroplanes aero-planes to their destination. The aeroplanes are being specially built 1 bv German manufacturers at n cost of I about $-'0,000, to which the colonial office of-fice is contributing about $7500. One important im-portant duty of these machines will be to transport diamonds from the interior to the coast, tlie present mode of carriage, car-riage, which necessitates an armed guard, being rather costly and slow. It may also be assumed that the presence pres-ence of the aeroplanes will strike awe into the warlike tribes of tlie Interior. This particular use of flying machines has long been foretold, and the government is understood un-derstood to be considering the advisability advisa-bility of sending out aeroplanes or an airship to make a kind of "demonstrn -tion of force" on a-disturbed frontier in another portion of Africa. |