Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-01-15
Council of Ambassadors
Award Airship to America
as Part of Compensation.
WILL NOT BE READY FOR
DELIVERY BEFORE 1923
Experts Scattered All Over
World, and Reorganiza.
ton Necessary.

Especial Gable to Times Dispatch
berlin. Jan. la.-America.s new
Zeppelin. which the council OF am
bassadors awarded to the United
Shtes az part compensation for the
airships destroyed In 1913. probably
VIII be many months aborning.
American representatives. here be-
iicvc It will be at. least in the sum
ner OF 1923 before the dirigible
starts on It's transatlantic trim. The
international aeronautical commits
sion today served notice on the gov
eminent. as the first step In the ne
Eotiations with Germany, that It will
be required TO build replacement
Zeppelin OF the general type OF the
L-IO for the United States govern
ment.
Crew OF Experts Dispersed.
Customarily the objects OF all
commission demands are on the
principle that long negotiations will
be necessary to thresh out the prob
lem or how much depreciation will
be allowed on the destroyed airships.
none OF which were OF the dimen :
sions OF the L70. The largest was
about $4,000 instead OF 10000 cubic
meters capacity. Then II will be
necessary TO obtain tn. approval OF
the American navy's specifications
Tor the new craft and to fix the price
1T which they figured in the repara
lions. This, according TO the Yep
peltn company's estimates. should
be from sl,500.000 to 100000 for a
dirigtble OF the size desired.
All construction AT the Zeppelin
| works In Frledrichshafen has been
suspended since 1919. None OF the
materials are assembled and all the
workrcen except n skeleton crew OF
experts have dispersed to the four
Winds since then.
1t Will take several months OF pre-
naratory work before construction
can be begun. This only means that.
thanks to American insistence upon
obtaining big Zeppelin. construc-
ton can he undertaken ut ALL
The interallicd commission already
| had ordered all construction hangers
| destroyed when your corresDonden,
visited Friedrichshafen year ago
'ndcr the ruling to scrap all facili-
ties for building or housing airships
Of more than 10000 cubic meters
Sor construction would be impossible
| IL the big sheds were destroyed, sine,
| 4 zeppelin can only be constructed
in building big enough to house
| her.
| Company Anxious To Begin.
| The Zeppelin Company now, n.
hen, is anxious to undertake the
construction of n Zeppelin for tn.
Gnited States. looking Mt such an or
der. whether the contract is received
from the American or TIE German
government as replacement craft. n.
| virtually the sole hope for continu
Ing building operations and main
tanning It's existence.
Airshlps of 10000 meters, to which
IL is limited by the entente, are re
garded as commercially practicable
experts. and the prospect o
building transatlantic dirigitles 70
\ Spanish South American line, abou
~h'"e the newspapers recently hav
carried lot of fancy advance no
tees, are OF the haZiest, most writer
on the subject having ignored tn.
elemental fact OF the differences II
r"asons between Spain and Argen
tine. That will compel the airship:
navigate in single trip from The
scmitropical climate OF the Spanish
summer to the chill Argentine win.
ter. or vice versa, and will impose :
virtually impossible task upon the
dirigible of carrying sufficient ballas
To counterfeit the tremendous cXpan
sion and contraction of the gas.
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