Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-07-11
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health and customs oflicials Oh board
put out from the quarantine station
and went alongside the submarine. To
the municipaf health oficer, DR..
Thomas L. Richardson the skipper,
presented his bin Of health, issued to
him by william Thomas us.
consul at Bremen. on June Il, j. ..sg
The document describes the
Deutschland as "a vessel engaged in
the freil 1T trade between Bremen and
Boston or other eastern Atlantic
ports. 1T records her gross, tonnage
as 791, says, she Is newly built" has
a cargo Of. dyestuffs In good condi.
ton and "a wholesome supply Of wat.
er from the Bremen waterworks. . W.T.
ship Not Armed. .a512s.
One thing the boarding officers not.
ed particularly-there were no tor
pedo tubes nor guns OF any descrip-
ton visible aboard the vessel. They
had been told she mounted two small
caliber rifles for defense but came
ashore convinced that the visitor was
wholly unarmed.a .ea....,..- -, 1 l..
It was learned that the boat left
Bremen with her load Of about $50
tons OF valuable dyestuffs which her
owners hope to sell to American man.
ufacturers for fortune. At Helgo'
land she waited nine days, leaving
there June % to plough deep beneath
the surface OF the North sea to, escaps
the watchful eyes Of the allied block
aderS. NIL ess VI
We stopped there for very good
reasons" the captain explained, with
a broad SMILE.
This accounted for the belief in the
United States that the vessel was, 4
week overdue, q Misrepresentation that
caused German embassy officials to
fear that she had run into allied war.
ships or fallen victim to an Atlantic
storm. Once outside the blockadins
lines and into the Atlantic, according
to the captains story, he headed
straight across and only deviated from
his course once when he saw what he
took to be enemy craft Most of the
time, he sped, along on the surface,
making around fourteen knots an hour
with his powerful twin Diesel oil en-
gines. Submerged he could go at the
rate of seven and half knots. g.
Comes In ut Night.
Approaching the capes late Satur.
day, Capt. KONG found his path ap.
parently clear. He laid to with his
decks awash, however, waiting until
darkness fell before nearing the coast
When the bright half moon went down
shortly after midnight, he put on all
speed and shot between the Virginia
capes, to be greeted by the tug Tim
mons, sent there more than a week
before to await his coming.
On board the submarine are the
captain, first and second officers and
twenty-six men, all wearing the regu.
lation uniforms Of the German mer
camille marine, with the North Ger
man-Lloyd insignia upon their caps
The skipper is trim, slightly built
man of medium height around 40 years
of age. Two of his seamen are griz
zled old tars, but all theasarest are
youths apparently ranging from 10 to
% years. #|f
Mass Of Machinery.
I As described by DR.. John c.. TRAY
ers, assistant health officer, who was
taken through the boat by Capt konis
the SDeutschland's interior appears tc
be mainly a mass Of machinery. She
has but one deck below and a seven
teen foot depth of hold for her cargo
DR.. Travers descended through the
forward hatch, where he found the
crews quarters, hunks on either side
of narrow passageway leading tc
compartments occupied by the captain
and his two officers. The captain,s
room is scarcely six feet square anG
barely high enough for man to stand
1t is furnished all III metal with the
exception of small oak desk. Direct
ly beneath the officers quarters is the
dynamo which stores electrical energy
to drive the vessel when submerged.
Next.Dr Trayers was taken into the
Officers mess room, scarcely larger