THE GRAF ZEPPELIN
Australian Press Association.
STOWAWAY WHO MISSED THE YESSEL. Threat To Throw Others Overboard
(fieceived This Day, 1 p.m.) BERLIN, May 16. A desperate last-niinute effort to stowaway on the Graf Zeppelin was made by a young Bavarian tailor. As the comniand was given to open the doors of the liangai-, a special guard noticed a man liigh 111 tho network of tlie hangar girders, ready to junip 011 top of ihe clirigible. The start was delay ed while the guard climbed to the roof and arrested a tailor, Adolf Lenk, who admits that lie plaiined to clinib to the safety valve on the roof and later to the crew's quarters. Officert of tlie Zeppelin assert tliat they are serious in annoiuicing tliat any stowaway l'ound after tlio start wiil he pitohed over board with a parachute. Captain Lehmann, first officer, states that Lenna gas, which is heavier than tho usual blue gas, will he used tliis trip. The fuel ahoard is snfficient for 130 hours, wliereas it is anticipated .that the fiiglit will take 86 hours. nrriving nt New York 011 Sunday morning.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 89, 17 May 1929, Page 7
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186THE GRAF ZEPPELIN Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 89, 17 May 1929, Page 7
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