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Show DIRIGIBLE CREW 10 HEJTERNED London, Feb 18 Fourteen members mem-bers of the crew of the Zeppelin dirigible diri-gible which was destroyed by an ex-plosion ex-plosion on Fance Island, were rescued res-cued and will be interned by the Danish Da-nish authorities, says a dispatch from Copenhagen to Reuter's Telegram Co. The. Zeppelin was cruising over the island with another dirigible when it caught flrc and was compelled to descend, de-scend, landing before the explosion took place The destroyed Zeppelin was the L-3, one or the largest In commission. She was completed In 1914 and wa 550 feet long aud had a diameter of I g ict She was supplied with four motors with a total horse power ol 720 and had a speed or rorty knots. Commander Prinz says the situation when the fire broke out was critical. ( He reared that the bombs on board th airship would explode before he ould get to the ground I ' -r--J j |