The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-14

have been revived by the destruction Of the Deutschland, the biggest and latest of Zeppelin dirigibles, on May 16. and the campaign in favor of dropping the system of Count Zeppelin for the army has been renewed in the military and part Of the daily press.
 The destruction of six Zeppelins in rapid succession, after existences varying from 10 days to at most Il months, usual ly from inability to control the monster balloons in even a moderate wind, Is cited to prove their utter lack of reliability in war Even the wreck of the military Parseval balloon, nonrigid type, two days after the destruction of the Deutschland, is being used as an argument against the Zeppelin, her opponents pointing out that though wrecked in exactly the same way, by collision with the balloon hull, the Parseval can be restored inside of fort night by a simple mending of the cloth hull while the rebuilding of the aluminium frame of-the Deutschland cannot be com pleted before December.
 At the aeronautical division of the war office, however, it is stated that th army authorities have not lost conf Ience in Count Zeppelin, and will take over the military. Zeppelin. now building at Fred rickshaven, when 1t Is completed. Point ing out that none of the serious disas- ters had happened when Count eppelin was personally in charge, the aviation expert argued that the inventor had out distanced his pupils and that less dihi- culty would be experienced as the tech nique of handling the dirigibles made more progress.
 The latest disaster Is more serioue for Count Zeppelin financially than its predecessors as the insurance companies, in the light of the experience, had re- fused to insure the Deutschland. The air- ship destroyed last year in the Thur ngian forest. was fully insured.
 The Berlin Press association, which in eludes practically all working newspaper men here, has adopted unanimously . resolution forbidding its members to ac- cept money from banks or financial in- stitutions for any work whatsoever.
 Occasion for the resolution Is found in the revelations brought out ct a recent blackmailing case, based on a series of payments made number of years ago by a Berlin bank to a group of financial editors for booming Portuguese bond issue. At the trial 1t was testified that this practice formerly customary, had long ceased, but that it was still the custom to pay financial editors suita- in preparing statements, prospectuses. etc., for publication.
 Dissatisfied with the results of col- Liberation in the Rose Cavalier and his other previous operas. Richard Strauss, fl Is announced from Munich. will him. self write the text to his next opera Strauss is at present working on a7new symphony, not on the composition of an opera to theme by Gabrielle d'A'nunxio. as has .been reported.
 
 Two expeditions. one in Greenland and the other ir Manchuria. are still eneaxed in the purchase of sledge-dogs and Man churian ponies for the German Antarctic expedition under Lieutenant Filchner whose ship. the Duetnchland, sailed from Hamburg, May g. The dogs and ponieS will be brought to Hamburg, whence Lieutenant Filchner expects to sail with them for Buenos Ayres about August 1.