AERONAUTICS: Blue Gas & Hydrogen

Near Yarmouth last week Englishmen early one evening heard a disagreeably familiar purring sound. Then they saw the first Zeppelin to appear over England since the War.

In Bremen night-revelling Germans heard the same sound, rushed into the streets and put up such a shout that high above them passengers aboard the ship, shivering between scant blankets in unheated cabins, could hear.

In Berlin early risers crowded to the rooftops to cheer this "symbol of German invincibility." Work ceased for the morning. On one rooftop the widow of a former Zeppelin officer,...

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