The German airship Graf Zeppelin, under the charge of her famous Jcommander, Dr. Hugo von Eckener, [started this morning on a scientific and meterolovical flight to the Arctic, The dirigible took off from her base, Friedrichafen, on Lake Constance, at 9.45 am, She will land in Berlin this evening and continue her flight at dawn, when she will set off for Leningrad, From there she will proceed to the Arctic via Archangel.
Tt was originally planned that the Graf Zeppelin should meet Sir Hubert Wilkins' submarine Nautilus at the North Pole, but this project has now been definitely abandoned.
July 25, Soaring away gracefully, its ioni silvery hull bathed the' blinding ing shortly before dawn. for Leningrad, the second station on its epoch-making ight to. the North Pole, where it is'due to arrive Saturday night.
Coming straight from Fredrich shaken, the airship had arrived over the capital at four pam. yesterday land after a two hours cruise above streets and housetops, black with cheering. people, had. been tied to the mooring mast at Staaken Acrorome where the police had to ploy gentle force to keep. the en. Thosiastie crowds from. interfering with the work of refuelling and of completing the Arctic equipment of the dirigible and its passengers and When the dirigible finally cast off, there were forty-seven persons aboard. her for this memorable Journey. "Besides the crew and the Scientists, this number included two Journalists, one press photographer andthe passengers proper, Dr. Eckener who is-also Chairman of the Acre-Arctic Society {is the head the expedition, fail his trusted offcers'm have made Zeppelin histor tains "Lehmann, Flemmin Schiller, Witteman and Pron, the (Chie "Engimner Beuerle, and" the wireless operators Dumke," Speck Amongst the scientific staff of the expedition are the following: feasor Lo. Walckmann, Director 0 the Geophysical Institute of Leipsig|' Unversity, the foremost German meteorologist. Captain Walter Bruns, Secretary General to. the Acre-Arctic Society under whose auspices the flight is undertaken and who was commander of a Zeppelin during the war and years ago conceived the idea of utilising Zeppelins for the exploration of the Arctic, Professor Samoilovich, Director of the Arctic Institute at Leningrad Jand chief of the scientific staff of the expedition; Professor Molchanov, Director of the Aerological Observatory at Leningrad; Professor Kanishtchev, aviation specialists of the Russian Academy of Was Lieutenant Commander Edward N. Smith of the U.S. Arctic Ice Patrol Service who is on conditions in the Arctic; dahl, a Swedish cartographer; Professor Aschenbrenner of Munich, Jacro-geodician; Dr. Walter Buse, of Berlin, photogrammetrist; and Dr. Kohl-Larsen, of Allenbach, (Germany, a noted biologist who will also act as physician of the party Trans-Ocean Kuo Min.
Leningrad, July 25, The giant German airship Graf Zeppelin, which is in the course of 4 flight to the Arctic for scientific From here she will proceed to the Arctic vid Archangel.
The dirigible, while is under the ious. commander, base, Friedrichshafen, on Friday morn-jing. She landed in Berlin on Fri day evening and left for Lenin-rad at 440 this morning, Arctic at 11.10 this morning (local time)—Reuter.
Friedrichshafen, July 27.
The latest wireless messages re-ived here from Graf Zeppelin state that the airship on Sunday night at 10.50 crossed Cape Kinnarodden, the northernmost. ¢xtremity of the European Continent. The dirigible is at present well over: the Baron Sea, steering straight for Francis Joseph's Land where it will meet the icebreaker Malygin off Hooker Island—Trans-Ocean Kuo
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