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Show PLANNING GIGANTIC AIRSHIP. Count Zeppelin Will Build Craft to Carry Three Hundred Passengers. Cologne. Count Zeppelin, whose aerial flights in dirigible balloons have attracted world-wide attention, is planning a monster airship, capable capa-ble of carrying 300 persons, and which It is proposed to use In a passenger service to be established between Hamburg and London. A service also will be maintained from Hamburg to Cologne and Baden Baden. The craft will be 984 feet in length and about 85 feet in diameter. It will be driven by eight motors. News of the enterprises developed through visits which Zeppelin's Zep-pelin's chief engineer, Col. S. Mann, made to Hamburg, and to this city, where, on Monday, he discussed with the mayor of Cologne arrangement for the construction of landing and departure de-parture yards. -' |