Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-11 | Page 1 | Details of Plan to Attack New York Are Found

DETAILS OF PLAN i TO ATTACK NEW YORK ARE FOUND WASHINGTON, April 10 f Details of plans of the German general staff for bombing- New York City from the air and a ' minute description of the super-; super-; Zeppelin in which the invasion : would have been attempted, are contained in an article by Colonel Colo-nel "William N. Hensley, Jr., of the air service. Colonel Hens- ; ley was one of the American of- ! Cicers who visited Germany after aft-er the armistice. He says the German effort was scheduled to take place about Thanksgiving", 1918, and that the L-72- which he described describ-ed as "the largest airship in the world," was expressly constructed con-structed for the raid. Measur- t in 775 feet from tip to tip and equipped with six engines of 260 horsepower each, the L-72, j the colonel said, was capable, of j carrying five tons of high explosives ex-plosives and incendiary material. mate-rial. ,3 Three hundred and sixty-sev- -Jen. times the voyage-wasnnade on paper. The chances of real success were 367 to 1."