Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-19
Second Lap Of
Globe Journey
Completed.
MAY CONTINUE
TRIP THURSDAY
Throng at Airport
Cheers Arrival
in Japan.

TOXIC, August 10 P.-With a
journey Of $3.50 miles across two
continents officially logged, the
great German air liner Graf Zep-
pelin was safely housed in the
hangar at Kasumigaura Naval Air
Station at 5:07 am, Eastern
Standard Time, today after run
of 101 hours and SO minutes from
Friedrichshafen.
Five hundred Japanese blue
jackets brought down the silver
queen of the air on Kasumigaura
Field at 6:27 am. Forty minutes
later they slowed her safely away
until the start of her flight Of
5,420 miles across the Pacific
Ocean to Los Angeles, next stage
of her flight around the world.
The Graf will probably start for
the Pacific coast of America on
Thursday.
This flight over the waste
stretches of the Pacific never yet
traversed by an airShip, marks the
third stage of the globe-circling
Crafts journey. Together with
the run across the American con-
tinent from Los Angeles to Lake
hurst, the Zeppelin must still fly
nearly 5000 miles to her goal on
the New Jersey airf1eld from
which she set out on August Z.
Round Of Festivities Begins.
A round Of entertainments and fes-
tivities in the lavish tradition of
japanese hospitality began for the 20
passengers and the 40 officers and men
Of the Graf as soon as the last rope
had been coiled and the last inspection
given to the engines in the Kasumi-
gaura hangar.
while immense crowds Of excited
japanese broke again and again through
police and military cordons, DR.. Hugo
Eckener and Admiral Takarabe. Japa-
nese minister Of the navy, exchanged
formal felicitations on the field.
The passengers. all of whom were well
and in good spirits, went through
brief cusomS inspection and then
boarded a train for Toxic, 40 miles
away. The Japanese ceremonial meal,
traditionaily extended to visitors, was
served by airport and government Of
f1cials before they left. It consisted in
dried chestnuts. dried cuttlefish and
saki, national alcoholic beverage fer
mented from rice.
The officers and crew Of the Graf
were distracted from the strain Of four
days and six hours of contant effort
and responsibility over the heart Of
Europe and the wildS of Siberia by an
entertainment given by the command
ant of the airport. They relaxed from
the tension of the flight from Fried
richshafen by dining and watching the
dancing Of Geisha girls, professional
Japanese entertainers.
Engines Get Attention.
|, Meanwhile, the staH of American,
German and japanese engineers. who
had been waiting to 60 over the Graf's
engines and replenish her stores, Sc
her transpacif1c flight.
Before landing at Kasumigaura field
the Graf made q courtesy flight over
Toxic and Yokohama to satisfy the
curiosity Of the people. 1t was spec
tacle never before witnessed in the
Orient. not even in Japan, where mod
ernization has been SO rapid since the
middle Of the last century.
No airship as big as the Graf ever
cruised the skies of the Empire Of the
Rising Sun. Three Navy blimps are
the nearest approximation to her ever
seen in Japan.
By trick Of fate the Graf was
slowed away in q hangar built from
German reparations payments.
DR. Hugo Eckener probably will make
another flight over Toxic before start
ing across the Pacific. The German
embassy expected him to pass over the
twofold bridge which marks the en-
trance to the imperial palace as a ges-
ture Of courtesy to the Emperor.
The dirigible. fresh from a Jaunt
across Eastern Europe, Siberian tundra
and Asiatic mountain land, arrived over
this city at 2:35 am, Eastern standard
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