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Show NEW DIRIGIBLE BREAKS MOORING Navy Airship Driven Westward West-ward by High Winds Aeroplanes Aero-planes in Pursuit of Runaway Craft. Pensacola, Fla., April 7. A big observation ob-servation balloon which broke from Its moorings at navy aviation station hero today and floated away unoccupied, unoccu-pied, descended about 1 o'clock this afternoon at Argyll, Fla., 100 miles northeast of Pensacola. Mobile, Ala., April 7. A telephone message from Pensacola early today said the navy's now dirigible airship broke from its moorings at tho naval station there this morning and Is being be-ing driven westward- by a high wind. Plans are being made to pursue and capture tho runaway airship with noroplaneB. The dirigible, the largest ever sent to the gulf coa3 was tc havo been used for military obac-v . Hon purposes. It Is said to bo wort . between ?50,000 and $60,000. |