Dirigible's Rapid Flight.

New York Times 100 years ago today, April 21, 1913:
Italian Military Airship Does 295 Miles in Nine Hours.
    ROME, April 20.— A military dirigible left Rome at 5:40 o'clock this morning and arrived at Verona at 2:55 P.M. It covered the 295 miles at an average speed of about thirty-three miles an hour.
    The dirigible, which is entirely of Italian manufacture, carries two motors of sixty-two horse power each and had benzine for a fifteen hours journey. In crossing the Apennines, it rose more than 3,000 feet.