Show GERM NS IMPROVE DIRIGIBLE TYPES BERLIN Germany German Feb 23 The 5 The German Gorman war department not content to have havo outdistanced all competitors for su supremacy supremacy su su- In dirigible ballooning ballooning- is now devoting its attention to Increasing the speed of or these craft by reducing size weight and atmospheric resistance or by bythe bythe bythe the use uso of or higher power po motors or both Tho The tendency Is toward small amaH swift cruisers The two exceptions In this 5 years year's rears ears are mammoth craft parrying carrying motors of or great power The Tho medium sized dirigible has tins lost favor Tho The latest Zeppelin type a military ry cruiser designed for work ork and o only nt two thirds as long as the Deutschland dirigible will carry caro engines of or tho the same high power Its ends are arc also more pointed to decrease e air resistance resistance resistance resist resist- ance and Insure the greatest speed Tho The newest al ship to bo be commissioned In n April will be only four fifths as largo 1800 as 8 lt Its predecessors Speed of forty miles an hour Is the aim of or the tho German Gorman military military mili mili- tar tary airship designers This speed H Is confidently expected of the new Grosse Grusse balloon now awaiting sult- sult ablo weather conditions for Its trials and even on hc he monster Siemens the tho largest rigid non balloon In tho the world worM will closely approximate It a 0 re recent recent recent re- re cent trial with only two of ot her horsepower motors working having developed de do- do- do a speed of or more than twenty twenty- miles an hour The Tho airship can carr carry pas passengers and crew up to fifty persons personA To facilitate landing In windy weather airship sheds in Germany are now madu made to revolve on circular tracks tacks The latest Innovation Inno an electric capstan by by- which the airship is drawn In and out of or the shed with safety even en in stormy weather er has hns been Installed In the tho shed of the tho Siemens dirigible near Berlin |