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Show i UNITED STATES BUYS BIG ITALIAN AIRSHIP WASHINGTON. Mar. 5.--The army (will hnve an airship capable of carry-' jlng 100 passengers In addition to the crew when the great Italian r.emJ-'riKbl r.emJ-'riKbl dirigible 'Roma," recently pur-It pur-It bused, arrives. An air service detachment detach-ment Is en route to Italy to deflate the big boar and bring it home on ship-boa ship-boa rd . I The 'Konia," driven by six twelve- . Under engines developing an aggregate aggre-gate of '1. 100 horsepower, has u lifting capacltv oi t;:,"i'ii pounds. She can I carry nearly 10 tons through the air in addition to herself and her crew df an estimated maximum speed of 80 mile, an hour The gas bag. holding l,t00000 cubic feet of gas. is longer than all but the most modern war craft. 410 feet, and la XX feet wide while box and cur tower to u hcirht jof ; feet, six Inches. With filled gasoline tanks the ship haa a full speed radius Of 350 miles 'and at cruising speed could go 800 miles without landing. ! The Itoma" was constructed under P rsonal supervision of Slgnor L'nuolll whose name has been applied to alr-. alr-. rsXI Of that particular type She was designed for commercial uses origlnal-ly, origlnal-ly, but was sold to the 1 I for 1200.- '(100. It would cost fl.2fvu.000 to dupll- 'cotc her, BXpbrtS figure. |