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Show ZEPPELIN AIRSHIP AT MERCY OF THE WINDS FOR bLEVji HOljIS Thousands of People Watching the Maneuvers Are Horrified When Count. Zeppelin Loses Control, and Soldiers in Automobiles and Cavalry Race Over Country to Be on Hand When Descent Is Made Dirigible Lands Safely at Dingolfing Munich, April 1 Tho Zeppelin airship air-ship made an attempt today to fly from Fried rich sharen to this city and back. It encountered a storm and was driven far out of Its original course, and after elovon hours In the air, landed safely at Dingolfing, 65 miles northeast of Munich. Part of tho Journey was made under un-der circumstances of peril; one or the motors refused to work, and it was Impossible for the airship to make headway against the wind which Increased In-creased steadily In violence. Helpless and drifting rapidly leeward, the airship air-ship traveled for four hours while Count Zeppelin and bis men awaited an opportunity to make a sare and successful landing. They were followed fol-lowed over tho country by soldiers in swift automobiles and by throe squadrons squad-rons of heavy cavalry. The troops v ere sent out to bo ready to render assistance when a descent was attempted. at-tempted. The airship outdistanced them and they wore not in at tho finish. Munich, April 1. Tho Zeppelin alr-ihlp alr-ihlp with tho count himself on board, lo the plaything of the winds and is being swept helplessly over the country. coun-try. She is out of control and drilling drill-ing with no hope of being able to make headway against tho increasing wind. Th wind is too high to attempt a landing. Soldiers in swift automobiles, are racing over the coimtry after the vessel ves-sel in order to bo on hand at the descent des-cent if ono is made, and several parties par-ties of cavalry have been ordered out and are galloping down tho roads to the northwestward for the same purpose,... pur-pose,... . . " The "ship appeared over the" outskirts out-skirts of this city, live hours .alter starting the flight. A distance of 111 miles was covered in five hours. The ; count left Frledrlchsharen with tho i Intention of trying to sail from there j to Munich and back. It was his in-I in-I tentlon to land hero In the presence or the Prince Regent and the entire gar-j gar-j rlson of Munich, but owing to a equal and increasing wind, tho maneuvers J were impossible. An attempt was I made over the parade grounds outside ' I the city, but as soon as it was seen to j j be impossible, the ship lined again, j j The count then tried to return to Mun-j Mun-j Ich. but by this time, tho wind waa j to strong he could make no headway, ; and it was noticed that the airship was being driven sideways down tno , wind. Whoa the sortousness or the' ; situation was realized, troops were ordered or-dered out to follow the airship, and J these prepared to rend-er any assi6t- j ance possible. Tho count endeavored to overcome j the resistance of the wind by rising to a greater altitude, but this maneuver apparently was not successrul, for the ' balloon was drivon rapidly from the Bight of the people or Munich in a . northeasterly direction. ) At a quarter past eleven, two hours ! after Its firat appearance here, the ,' airship was over Freysing. The airship is manned by Count 1 Zeppelin, Major Sperling, several ot- fleers of the engineers corps and a crew of soldiers from the balloon bat-1 bat-1 tallon of tho Qerman army. The departure took place at five minutes past four from Friedrlchahar-tn. Friedrlchahar-tn. It was still dark and the weather dull. The wind was strong and contrary. con-trary. The ship passed' over Krted-rlchshafen Krted-rlchshafen at an altitude oC 1,000 teet at moderate speed and turned in the direction of Munich. Ravensburg. Aui-enburg, Aui-enburg, Erbach, Bielsbrach and Augsburg, Augs-burg, points between Frledrtchshaten and Munich, were brilliantly lighted with electricity in order to show the aerial navigators the direction in which they wanted to travel. When the airship was sighted shortly short-ly before 9 o'clock, approaching Munich, Mun-ich, tho church belte of the city rang out in peals of welcome, and cannon fired a salute. As the ship drew nearer, near-er, the whirr of the motor could be heard on the Btreets of tho city. The vessel made its way to a point over the exposition grounds and descended descend-ed to within 300 feet Thousands or roople had gathered on the grounds and the maneuvers was greeted with an outburst of cheering. The Prince Regent of Bavaria was present ana fcaluted Count Zeppelin, who stood on the bridge. A band played the national na-tional anthem. The airship then moved- off in the direction of the palace, where it was .greeted from the tower by the princesses prin-cesses of tho royal family. ( |