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...prelude Congressman Frank R. Reid, counsel for Colonel Mitchell, opened with a modest address of 22,000 words telling what he proposed to prove for his client to back up the sweeping statements for which Colonel Mitchell is being tried. He said he would prove that the lost Shenandoah was not a first rate dirigible and not in the best of condition, that a Navy officer had tried to persuade Mrs. Lansdowne not to testify that her husband had protested against the Shenandoah's fatal trip, that several high officers of the Army and Navy had made false...
...matter at stake is two of his statements made on Sept. 5 and 9 and principally the declaration regarding the loss of the Shenandoah and near-loss...
...doubtless was with an article which appeared last week in the Saturday Evening Post, an article entitled "With The Shenandoah," by Zachary Lansdowne, U. S. Navy. At this end the editor appended a note: "This article was written by the late Lieutenant Commander Lansdowne some weeks before the last trip of the Shenandoah and was found among his papers...
...Naval Court of Inquiry investigating the loss of the Shenandoah wrote to the editor of the Post asking whether the article was authentic (as it doubtless was) and whether it was complete as Commander Lansdowne first submitted it. Indeed, rumor in Washington had it that he had submitted the article some weeks before his death and it had been returned, and that when the Post got it again some paragraphs had been deleted. This view seemed to be supported when Mrs. Lansdowne admitted that she had taken out some paragraphs concerning the possibility of using the Shenandoah in the Arctic...
...text of the article will doubtless be recorded by the President's Air Inquiry Board, and the Court cf Inquiry into the Shenandoah disaster will probably make much of it. In speaking the praises of dirigibles (which is the major function of the article), Commander Lansdowne himself apparently answered the statements of those who said that he feared to go on the fatal trip on account of weather conditions. The article said: -"The airplane is now reasonably safe, and the great airship inflated with helium is beyond a doubt the safest method of travel known to man, taking precedence...