The Hindenburg has performed the remarkable feat of cross ing and recrossing the Atlantic within a week. This Latest demon stration of the advance of the airship in the hands of German engineers will evoke general admiration. The ere fact that she can cross from the United States to Germany in under 48 hours. is eloquent of the possibilities of the lighter-than-alr machine." Leaving Frankfort August "17, she was back there on August 22,'in the small hours of the morning on departure and return, having reached Lakehurst on August 19 and left the next day. In contemplating such an achievement it, seems almost banal to trouble over the progress of the Queen: Ma nevertheless the news that that lady proposing once again to have a bid for the Blue Riband is distinctly cheering. She has made good pro ress and seems to have enough in hand to cope with moderate gales and other vicissitudes, At this distance it is dimeult to understand the cheerful optimism of the ennouncemenis emanating from Madrid. The insurgents seem to have tightened their grip over several important provines in Spain.{ They have apparently established communication with Morocco, whence they can bring reinforcements without serious difficulty. They have at their disposal the greater portion of the regular army, half the air force, one or two units of the navy and their capture of Badajoz which they now hold, in addition to Burgos, Seville, Valladolid, Malaga, Cordova, Saragossa, Majorca Island. One [statement asserts that they actually control 31 as against 19 provinces in loyalist hands. The Government claims to have stemmed the advance across the Guadarramas and if that view be confirmed by the event the rebels will undoubtedly have sustained a serious reverse but whether it will Iny clear the way to recovery of Badajoz is another matter all counts it seems that the Government is right In asserting that the struggle will be long. The insurgents appear to be encountering some dim culty in the Rif. That may be im. portant in view of their reliance on Moorish troops whose landing Spain itself has given the Government a rallying ery against the leaders of the revolt. The weakness of the insurgents' position ties in the general sympathy of the peasantry with the Government and they can not afford therefore to sustain con-mucus losses. Replacement of their regular trained troops is probably more dificult a task than the moblizalon by the Government of elvillan recruits in support of the militia,
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