Arizona republican., 1913-06-01
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 MONEY MAKERS
Germany Figures It Has Lost Three-quarters of a Million in It's Investment in Three Zeppelin Diri- giblc Machines
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH

ASSOCIATED PRESS DISFATCHI BERLIN. May 31-About the quick est possible way to lose money in Ger many is to buy Zeppelin, according to the annual report of the German Airship company just made public EN- ! artly fifty per cent of the $750.000 in vested by the company took wings with it's three biz airships in 1912. The loss of the SchWaben covers most of the big deficit. d backward spring and q rainy midsummer are held culpable for another large sum. the unWillingneSs of the public to travel by way of the clouds is blamed not at all. for 5000 passengers paid their way on the air craft and, in addition, unnumbered hundreds Of army officers were carried gratis.
 The report of the company's loss reads not unlike the resume of lean year on the farm. April and May. ban her months for sky-pilots. brought lit tie sunshine and much cold weather Pickle winds blew about the sheds and for many days none of the big ships stirred from its aerial moorings. June and July were fair-and the Schwaben was destroyed. For forty days dur ing the height of the best season fac tories worked day and night to replace her When the Hansa was finally "launched" the best of the flying weather had passed. However. the SchWaben and the Hansa made 173 trips between them from April to De Cember, and the Victoria Luise third and last of the air fleet, made thirty per cent more trips than both of them combined, or 225 in all. before she was placed out of commission in November.
 The winds will be shorn of their ter TOTS in the future. however. by revolv- ing airsheds which can be so manipu- lated as to bring out a ship in the teeth of any air-Current of moderate velocity. The high military value of the Zeppc- llnS, more than anything else, perhaps. is responsible for the innovation, as the army demands air vessels that may be . used under all atmospheric conditions. What the Zeppelins will cost in the event of a big war, rather than the benefits they will accomplish is an item in the latest estimate of the cost Of Germany's next war. Captain Hen Ike If the German general staff, has been studying the financial end of such a war, and has made public his deduc- tiOns. With 5000 GOO men in the field he estimates that the Fatherland would spend S2.6O0 GOO 900 a year-mOre than twice the present national debt This stupenduOus figure represents nearly 37 per cent of the earning capacity of the entire nation on peace footing Captain Henke estimates.
 This conclusion is reached by com pairing the costs of the Franco Prus- sian and Russo Japanese wars. In the Franco PruSSian war 1t cost Germany $143 a man a day to keep it's forces in the field; Russia paid s238 a man a day during the Manchurian campaign. Germany would spend as much as Russia. Captain Henke reckons, but would be able to afford it The earn ! ings of the German people Captain Henke places at S7140,000, GOO This is in times of peace What they would be with 3,0O0,000 men taken from the workshops to the field he does not estimate
 Emigration from Hamburg and Bre- men is heavier than it has been in years. During April more than 43,OOO persons left for the United States from these two ports alone. This was nearly double the number that left in April, 1912-seventy-six per cent more, to be exact. Not since the tidal wave of emigration in 1907 has the exodus been so great.
 Two causes are assigned for the active emigration. First. political uncertainty and rumblings of war from the Balkans (echoed throughout