Air Fleet For Germany.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 29, 1912:
Twenty Zeppelins Able to Remain in the Air Four Days to be Built.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    BERLIN, Nov. 28.— In the lobbies of the Reichstag to-day discussion centred on what is now regarded as the certain appearance of Germany's first aerial navy bill.
    It can be stated on reliable authority that the recommendations of the War Office and Admiralty include the building, as the beginning, of a fleet of twenty Zeppelin airships, each of about 920,000 cubic feet capacity, capable of traveling fifty-one miles an hour, and remaining aloft four days and four nights without an intermediate landing, and capable of carrying and discharging a ton of explosives.
    From the same authority it is learned that Gen. von Moltke, Chief of the General Staff, a few months ago unsuccessfully sought to induce the Government to bring in estimates for a fleet of twenty-five Zeppelins.