Within a few minutes of the sche" died time, the famous German ip Graf Zeppelin, which lo Friedrichshafen a little after mid-it on Tuesday, on the first of a series of voyages this year, landed here to.
Dr. Hugo von Eekener, her celebrated commander, stated that the trip was uneventful, The Graf Zeppelin, the only dirlgible in the world which makes flights on a regular commercial basis, accomplished three successful fights to Brazil last year, on each oreasion carrying a heavy load of mail and a number of passengers, On the present journey she carried nine passengers.
Among the notable fights achieved by the Graf Zeppelin was one round the world and, last year, a ¥enturesome journey to the Arctic Friedrichshafen, Mar. 27.
Anew record in mail transit will bbe established when the Graf Zeppetin returns to its shed from the first its 12 South American trips tomorrow forenoon and drops its mail bags from the different South Ame-capitals, collected and rushed Pernambuco by special aeroplanes of the South American Conldor Syndicate, Amongst these bags is one from Buenos Aires where the Zeppelin mail closed on Thursday noon, while the Rio de Janeiro closed day later. These bags will be rus fed from Friedrichshafen to Berlin by air and their contents will be dis tributed immediately, enabling Ber~ mers with friends in South America to read their letters within four or five days after they had been posted, while hitherto letters had taken at least 21 days to reach Berlin from Buenos Aires—Transe Ocean Kuo Min.
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