The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-04-12
Are the Zeppelins a Failure?

/ taken part in the operation. He con
Armed everything The Turk told
After the allied fleet had pulverized
several Turkish forts, and after troops
were landed on the Dardanelle$, the
whole world expected the fall OF Con
Istantinople within lew weeks, if not
days. Turkey wis spending every
shell she possessed to defend her
positions. The German and Turkish
haltIcSaipS had given up their sup,
plies Tor the land drlrnccs. The allies
. kept hanlmCriEg. and the situation
became more desperate.
Germany had Promised Turkey sup
port. 80 til" krupp interests tried TO
send powder and ammunition 10 Tur-
key via Rllmania. Servia at This time
was still unconQucred. Rumania, how
ever, placed an embargo on the ship
ment OF war supplies through her ter
riiory. 50 Germany shipped powder in
beer kegs and shells in cement blocks.
For some time Rumana did not dis
cover the German tricks. and il was
not until a key Of powder on Il sup
posed beer train exploded in Human
ian freight yards that Rumania dis
covered what was going on. The
krupps had shipped a train load Of
powder in beer kegs On one car they
had real Eavarian beer for diStribu.
,iinn To Rumanian border officials, bu,
,one night when the train was on Il
iSidc track four Rumanian railroad
men broke into car. took out Il keg.
ana when they hammered in the bunE-
hole the barrel exploded. killing three
,ol the men and woundins the fourth.
/ lhaL put Il stop 10 the Shipment Of
war supplies through Rumania.
Eu, tiar Allies w"r" still attacking
the pardan"lcs. and Turkey Needed I'M
m"dIai" assistance. 8" tn" Zeppelins
"cr" m"hiliZ"d Ammunition factories
IA Germany w"r" taken apart and tn:
machinery was carried Ia CnuSrantiun-
i'i" From T"in"$Var. Hungary. by Zcp-
i"illS. Tho. !unchln"ry WAS shipped 10
T,rn"Svar from Essen and Madsr burg
ana Carri"d through the air To Turkey
Powder Was carried in the same man
u"r. Within Il few weeks German anu
munli!"u factories Wcr" running in Tur-
key. and the big shells which tho Turks
n""dcd for defending The nardanrl"s
wcr" being manufactured as fast as
Turkey n'"d"i lh"in. The crisis WAS
passed. Th" T"Ti"lIns had saved the
pavdamrllrs and t"n*tanriuopl".
This incident. which played such a
great pnrt in deciding the outcome OF
the nnrdancll.s operations. was never
related Ia the German p"oplo because
tn" General Staff guarded information
about IrpprllnS mDrC closely than in
i"rmHtir" about any other thing In Ger
Ir'HE. Tn" General Staff deliberately
.ui-irl the German people in order To
G"c"iv" tn" outside world. because the
German government and the blk manu-
Featuring interests know that the X"D-
i"iinS during the war have demon
slraI"d that when Ir"acn comes they
, will be the greatest and most important
means o. international communication
tn" Zeppelin engineers know that I'M
do" any conditions except war 2nppe
Inns cannot be destroyed easily ~
people imagin". one time in TemcSvnr
met an Austrian captain OF Zeppelin
which had raid"d Sal0nica He told ME
i took ten hours TO lily from Tcmrsvar
to SalOnica. 4 distance Of about 700
miles. He told n" that Zeppciins could
lily. ind had gone from Narnur. Bel
GUM. where there is base. 20 Con-
stantinopl". Zcppclins had gone from
ConStHntinopla Ia RRgGad and near
Eagdnd the Germans were building
Zeppelin base for An attack on the Suez
Canal. The success Of the English OPP
"ral ions in Mcsopotamia have, OF course