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Commander of the Graf Zeppelin on her home jaunt was small, saturnine Capt. Ernst A. Lehmann, 42, Assistant Director of the Zeppelin works and easily Dr. Ecke-ner's peer in airship navigation. He was a naval architect on the late Count Ferdinand Zeppelin's staff and was operating a Zeppelin, the Sachsen, when the War broke out. Perforce he became a raider, bombed Antwerp once, London twice. In his book The Zeppelins, he reports, without boast or apology, that he could have destroyed London were that the German desire. He invented the device of concealing dirigible raiders by lowering...
Last week Linz Socialists returned in triumph to the police authorities. On the deck of a Danube freight steamer they had found wooden cases, labeled GLASS WARE, addressed to Prince Ernst von Starhemberg. The cases contained 16,000 rounds of Mauser cartridges...
Faced with this definite fact, the Linz police admitted that in purchasing actual war munitions Prince Ernst did seem to have broken the law. They sent a polite note to Prince Ernst, telling him of the Socialists' accusations, warning him that it would be necessary to search Schloss Waxenberg for arms. Followed four days, in which, while the police waited patiently, Prince Ernst's Heimwehr worked like ants, carrying boxes and crates out of the castle, into the woods. Only then did the Linz police, urged on by excited Socialists, climb and sweat up the hill...
Waiting for them at the gate was Prince Ernst Rüiger von Starhemberg, a Gemsbart (beard of a chamois) jutting proudly from the back of his green felt hat, his grey and green hunter's coat tightly bone-buttoned...
...What you expect to find, gentlemen," said Prince Ernst, "is not here...