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Show Airships in War The loss of the British dirigible, R-101, over Northern France last autumn was prcbably responsible for the announcement that Great Britain will not undertake any major ma-jor construction of airships in the r.ear future. Reasons of economy econ-omy may have affected this decision de-cision somewhat. The British announcement is met by a statement from the American Am-erican Naval authorities that there will be no let-up in American plana to develop this type for navigation. While the Americans lest the Shen andoah, the operations of the Los Angeles and the Graf Zeppelin have been successful enough to warrant further construction. In the recent naval maneuver? off Panama, the Los Angele was used as a sccut craft. It located a "hostile" group of ships ten minutes min-utes before it was seen by the enemy, ene-my, who could r.ot attack it with planes until thirty minutes after the presence of the squadron haa been reported. The American Navy expects to have the new airship Akron ready rea-dy for service late this summer and after trial llights it will be used foro perations with the fleet. Mooring facilities are being increased in-creased on the Pacific coast and at Honolulu. During the World War the Germans Ger-mans developed the dirigible wonderfully won-derfully beyond t he craft whicn was available at the beginning of hostilities. All new American naval na-val ships are being built by an American corporation which is affiliated af-filiated with the German Zeppelin organization.. This gives the Americans Am-ericans the full benefit of all the German experience and science. |