Tokyo, Aug. 27.
Los Angeles, Aug. 26.
After soaring about the vid of Los Angeles through several hours of darkness, the dirigible Graf Zeppelin ended its long flight from Japan by landing at Mines Field at 5.36 o'clock this morning.
crowd of 100,000 greeted Dr. Hugo' Eckener and his passengers alighted from the gondola shortly after mooring had been None showed any trip, and all reported the best of health and spirits during the voyage.
The Japanese passengers predicted that this flight will presage a regular dirigible service—between the Orient and the United States.
Particular interest attaches to the voyage since it now appears} that the craft will beat the Mears-
Collyer round-the-world record by' two or three days providing weather conditions are favourable.
John Henry Mears and Capt. B. B. Collyer last summer completed globe circuit, largely by plane, in the record-break They started and finished in New York and'went aroond te the some Econ os the Graf. Zepeli. atu on the Last Leg "Bsont execty om tine, at 12 othe Gigs Graf Zeppe satire at aeinght onthe forth dean fag of ts round-the-world acre of 2000 Jeters went sidan fordetely for near New ole Sued Pres Tuewon, Avy Aug. 2.
Sailing far to the southward over Mexican territory, the Graf Zep-
San Francisco despatches to the "Hochi" state that the Hearst new: papers have severely criticized the Japanese Government in regard restrictions on news of the Graf Zeppelin in Japan,;*Red tape," censorship and high charges ate] alleged.
The "Hochi investigated these reports and states that Karl Von Wiegand and Lady Grace Drummond Hay, correspondents of the Hearst newspapers aboard the Zep-behn, handed -manuseripts several thousand words in length to the local International News Service correspondent as soon as the dirble landed, and he turned the copy over to the Tsuchiura post office, The Poor Telegraphists Members of the postal staff took until 8 o'clock the next morning 0 plough through tke manuscripts in search of unusual words, as cable rules provide that ter can contain "di and mot contractions or Several times during the: course of the night they roused the LN.S, man out of bed to help them.
The "Hochi" explained that the staff was poorly paid and not wall educated and declared that if speed had been desired, arrangements} should have been made to handle the messages in Japanese instead of English.
The charges of censorship unfounded, the "Hochi" said.
In regard to the allega exorbitant press rates, the "Hech" aligned itself with the Hearst group, the Scripps-Howard newspapers and the United Press in the efforts made by them toward eatting the Japan-United States press rates in the] interests of greater mutual under-! to standing, but says that American' news services should "frst set an example of equitable treatment, toward newspapers of this country" before criticizing the Japanese Government,—United Press,
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