That Invading Zeppelin.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 4, 1913:
Left Luneville Covered with Autographs and "Vive la France!"
    PARIS, April 10.— It is now known that complete drawings are in the possession, of the French Government, of the German war dirigible, Zeppelin IV., which recently descended on the parade ground of the garrison town of Lunéville.
    Being on a trial voyage the airship was not armed, but on a platform on the top of the balloon were discovered places were six machine guns could be mounted. Experts like M. Julliot of the Lebaudy works and M. Sabatier of the Bayard-Clément works, who examined the Zeppelin, have imparted to the Government their opinion of the effective force of the airship, and that opinion is not complimentary to the German inventors and makers.
    One particular cause of the anger of the German press since the return of the airship to the fatherland is the fact that it bore away on all parts about 600 autographs of French men and women, with the phrase, "Vive la France!" together with other epithets quite as patriotic but less polite.
    This balloon is the largest Zeppelin model, being over 450 feet long, and is the fifth still remaining of 19 altogether built. The inside of the airship seems to have excited the most curiosity, being made up of a large number of aluminium joists and cross pieces, many of which were broken, together with several stays and a portion of the stern, thus showing the extreme fragility of the structure as a whole.
    "With regard to the two cars slung from the body, the foremost one, used by the Captain, contains a motor of 160 horse power, working two screws, while at the stern there are two more motors, each of the same horse power, working two other propellers. Any of the propellers can be worked by one or more of the motors.
    A long passage runs inside along the centre, where are kept pickaxes, shovels, and numerous implements ranged in perfect order. The captain's room is fitted up with barometers, thermometers, and complete sets of scientific instruments, and further on is a dark room for photography with a running water supply, and, lastly, a very neat and perfect wireless telegraphy installation.