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...Madeira...
Zeppelin Tour. Having taken its first spring jaunt to Jerusalem (TIME, April 8), the Graf Zeppelin took its second, last week, to the Madeira Islands. Rising from Friedrichshafen one afternoon with 20 paying passengers, Premier Otto Braun of Prussia, and 1,200 Ibs. of mail to be dropped on cities in passing, Dr. Hugo Eckener piloted his craft across France to Bordeaux, across Spain, Portugal and Tangier, out over the Atlantic to Madeira. He returned by the Mediterranean shore of Spain and the Rhone valley. The ship made its first night landing on the small Friedrichshafen field with perfect ease...
...this the extent of Biddle Sr.'s enterprises. When a mere youth, he conducted an exhaustive investigation into the condition of the inhabitants of the Madeira Islands. After eight years of preparation, he published a literary work on this topic in which the London Athenaeum, blind to the merits of U. S. enterprise, saw only the "naïve conceit of the compiler...
...From the Madeira Islands the course was directed northwards towards the Azores. Late in the afternoon the ship was sighted over Sao Miguel headed finally for the open sea. It was at this time that Karl H. von Wiegand, Hearst correspondent, radioed: "While ocean liners along the northern steamer lane are laboring in the heaviest weather, the Graf Zeppelin is sailing along under beautiful skies a thousand feet above the smooth ocean...
...Little Entente powers, by threatening armed intervention, forced Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya, Governor of Hungary, and his able Premier, Count Stephan Bethlen, to oppose his ill-advised return and to hand him and Empress Zita over to the British, who exiled him to Funchal on the Island of Madeira, where he died on April 1, 1922, of pneumonia...