Zeppelin Offers Alibi.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 21, 1912:
Says It Was Not His Airship That Hovered Over English Coast.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Nov. 20.— Count Zeppelin has telegraphed to The Daily Mail that none of his airships approached the English Coast on the night of Oct. 14.
    English suspicion of Germany's hostile designs was again aroused a few days ago by the report that the airship seen over Sheerness, at the mouth of the Thames, on Oct. 14 had crossed from that country. The belief was then expressed that only the German airships, and probably those of the Zeppelin type, were capable of making such a voyage.