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Show NEW ZEPPELIN ROUTEPLANNEO Germans Would Connect S. F. and Hamburg By Seven Day Journey (Py International News Service j BEriMN, Feb. 26 Walter BniSS, a former 7.oppelln commander today stated that a scheme to connect San Francisco with Hamburg in ."even days had been submitted to tho aerial aer-ial navigation bureaus of tho American Amer-ican army and navy. The project call for a fleet of zop-pcllna zop-pcllna to bo built at a cost of $80.-000,000 $80.-000,000 to transverse a route along the Norwegian roast to Spitsbergen thence over the Arctic sea to Aleutian Ib-Kmds Ib-Kmds thence to Hong Kong, Yokohama Yokoha-ma and San Francisco. Tho schedule would permit one or two half day stopovers. stop-overs. Bruss declares that by taking this I route the temperatures would be fnlr-Iv fnlr-Iv cold ull the year around, and there- tore, little gas would escape from the I seppelln bagp He says that zeppellns can be built that would carry 60 passengers, pas-sengers, a double crew and 15 tons of mall. The fastest method of traveling today to-day between Hong ICong and Hamburg requires 33 days, and from San Francisco Fran-cisco to Hamburg, 14 days. WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. A net-, net-, work of air lanes through a net work ' of airships of tho 7eppelln type linking link-ing up the big cities of the Inited States will be thrown over the conn-try conn-try within a year, according to pbjns announced tonight by a group of fl-! fl-! nanclal and aviation Interests Just ' formed. |