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Show ffliNSII iJQ,BUIlU! i Ti CRUISERS IMonsters of Air Given Try-j Try-j outs in Secret Near Lake Constance, Reports Say GENEVA, April 9. (By the Associated Associ-ated Press.) Tho Germans are work-ling work-ling feverishly to construct giant commercial com-mercial and passenger airships and airplanes, according to a report from iRomanshorn. The first trials of two ! monster machines were successfully 'held yesterday above Lake Constance, j The airship Nordstern, greatly surpassing sur-passing the Zeppelin Bodenseo in size, .capacity and power, flew for a half 'hour around the lake with a crew of j seven men. At the same time a new giant hydro-airplane, whose motors totalled to-talled 1000 horsepower, ; made aerial trips with twenty passengers. Both machines "were recently completed com-pleted at Friederichshavqn, where the (airship factory is said to have doubled in size since the armistice and other I monsters have already been begun. The Germans are concoaling the re- suit of the trials and ho reports of jthem are published in the "press. |