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NEW BALLOON RECORD German Officers Cross German Ocean From Leipsic to Leicester. London, April 13.––The German Ocean has been crossed for the first time in a balloon. Two German reservist officers of the name of Wegener and Koch started Wednesday night from the neighborhood of Leipsic and landed near Leicester, England, twenty hours later. Wegener is a well-known aeronaut. He holds the record for spending the longest time in the air in a balloon, having remained up for fifty-three hours. Herald New York 13 apr 1907 GERMAN BALLOON INVADES ENGLAND Bold Aeronauts Sail 600 Miles, from Bitterfeld to Leicester, in Sixteen Hours. STORY OF DR. WEGENER Member of the German Aero Club and Adolf Koch in the Kaiser's Service to Repeat Trip. BUFFETED IN THE DESCENT Passing High Over the Harz Mountains, In Going Over Holland They Were Low Enough To Be Observed. [SPECIAL CABLE TO THE HERALD.] HERALD BUREAU, No. 49 AVENUE DE L'OPERA, PARIS, Friday LONDON, Friday.––For the first time an invasion of England by an airship from Germany was accomplished yesterday, German aeronauts Dr Yurt [[Image]] UNIQUE AIRSHIP TO B TERRIFY NATIVES [[Image]] HOW MEN AND CERS AT NE Our photographs sho vention by which the X- cles. By the system in port has to pass in front tion. For the purposes o See [[??]] new york 13 apr 1907 ENGLAND "INVADED" BY GERMAN AIRSHIP Daring Aeronauts Sail Six Hundred Miles from Bitterfeld to Leicester in Sixteen Hours. STORY OF TRIP AS TOLD BY DR. WEGENER Member of German Aero Club and Adolph Koch in Kaiser's Service to Repeat Feat. The Herald to-day publishes the following special cablegram:–– LONDON, Saturday,––For the first time an invasion of England by an airship from Germany was accomplished Thursday, when two German aeronauts, Dr. Yurt Wegener, a member of the German Aero Club, and Herr Adolf Koch, of Frankfort, descended at Leicester, after having accomplished a voyage remarkable not only as being the first of its kind but for speed as well. Dr. Koch is a meteorologist in the service of the German government and has made many ascents. This voyage was undertaken mainly for the purpose of making scientific observations. The start was made from Bitterfeld, near Berlin, at a quarter past eight o'clock Wednesday evening. The coast of England was reached at noon of the following day, so that roughly speaking, the balloon covered in sixteen hours what by ordinary methods of transportation would have required at least twenty hours to do. The six hundred miles from Bitterfeld to Leicester was done in twenty hours. "Our balloon is of the ordinary type, with a capacity of 1,400 cubic metres," Dr. Wegener said to me when he reached London. "It was inflated with hydrogen gas. When we first ascended the wind was east southeast. Later it changed to east. We maintained an elevation of 2,000 feet, though in crossing the Harz Mountains we went higher. The balloon moved more swiftly nearer the earth. "Passing over Holland we could make out the boats in the canals, and in some places we were observed and greeted with shouts. We reached the shore of the Zuyder Zee at twenty minutes past five o'clock in the morning and crossed to Texel Island, which we left at a quarter past six o'clock. When we started we had expected to come down in France, but when we reached the coast we knew there was no danger as long as the wind held its direction. We had no anchor, only a 100 metre guide rope. "Weather had been fine during the night, but as we started seaward a heavy mist below us hid the sea from view. The first point on the English shore we made out made have been Cromer. Anyhow, we reached that part of the coast at fifteen minutes past twelve o'clock and passed along the edge of the shore and then crossed the Wash to Boston. "There the wind changed to northeast and we were borne along as far as Leicester, near which we descended in a park belonging to Mr. C. Laurie Johnson, twenty minutes past four o'clock German, twenty minutes past three o'clock English, time. The balloon zigzagged badly as we neared the ground and dashed us about, but we escaped with few bruises. We hope to repeat the trip."
