No Airship Near Fortress.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 18, 1912:
German Authorities Forbid a Flying Ground Near Spandau.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    BERLIN, July 17— The Berlin Electricity Company, a large concern which a year ago took up the manufacture of aeroplanes, recently laid out an elaborately equipped flying ground near Spandau. At the last moment the War Office forbade flights in the neighborhood on the ground that the military powder magazines near by might be exploded if an aeroplane happened to fall on them.
    This is precisely the same pretext given by the Grand Master of the Turkish Artillery for forbidding two Russian airmen to make ascents at Constantinople two years ago.
    The Zeppelin airship Victoria Louise, which yesterday flew from Hamburg to Frankfort, made to-day another seven-hour journey near the latter city. On this cruise the airship was formally invested with the dignity and duties of a Postmaster and was provided with a special postmark and stamp to deal with the letters posted aboard by passengers.