Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-23
DIVES LIKE 4 Pi.uMMET
10 FLOOR OF OCEAN

DIVES LIKE 4 PLIMMET
10 FLOOR OF OtIst y
th" way the merchant submarine
Deutschland dived like plummet lnd
chased bow-on to the floor OF the ocean
stood on her head, whirlins di.yily
while furious storm lashed the sur
face and a British destroyer secured
the se;, in search Of it's prey is mar
rated in graphic detail Ivy the U-boats
commander, Captain Paul Kcenia.
, The adventures of the first underaca
| incrchan,man have formed the subjey;
OF a hook written by her intrepid com
| mai'!er. one Of the chapters OF which
Is herewith reproduced /. the first
time in America
The book. which has just IN pub
lished in Germany, has caused Il trc-
mcndouS sensation.
Here is the comma nder's story OF how
the Dcutschland balanced herself OH
her head on the bottom OF the sea. ana
survived to reach America. unload her
precious cargo. take on another and re-
turn 10 the I'athcrland:
ny PAUL K0l;NIG.
We were early to learn the import !.
! ancc Of test Suhmcrsions and 20 nu,,
! out how infinitely necessary !; is TO
have tho great, hc;iv- boat firmly in
hand. with II keen and constant eye o,,
all tho ln!initcsinial details.
had decided that in the following
night, between tie darkeS, hours, we
would travel submerged with tho '.E''
engines.
In the dusk OF a long summer dav
we plunged downward. There vas only
/ little wind, but the sea surged high.
"a, -i-v
the wind would grow into Il storm.
IT'S MOVEMENTS BECOME
WILDER AND WILDER
about o'clock l gave orders to
rise. AS the boat rose to the surface.
sits movements became wilder and Wild
er. which proved to me that the storm
had come and with it a still higher
sea. Occasionally we made vcritabla
leaps. but we calmly blew ont our
| tanks" and got To the surface in "A
quite orderly manner.
AZ We reached pcriscopa depth. I
tried TO look around, hut II was still
almost Impossible 10 see anything, for
every second or 50 the lanky weeds
would cut into thick water mountains.
Then. too. there was the dawn. which
! made the waves appear even more un-
canny and bigger through the peri
scope as they rolled on with their
crushing force.
Then we came completely up to the
tower TO get correct view Of the
wildly dancing sea.
= Fine weather this was,
All around us in the misty da,,, was
| a witches caldron Of wavebcr.~. with
M N
which blew OF their water and
sent il sizzling through the
The boat worked hard Il was a
tough tussle. Frequently. nutshell that
she was. she had to give way before
the allpowerfnl element. The whole
deck WAS flooded. OF course. Every
minute the sea dashed against the
tower and its force broken. trickled
past me in q dense Spray-rain I clunc.
10 the rim of til. ''bathtuh" and search
cd the hori%on--a curious horizon IL
was. a mass of water mountains NOV
ing stcp-wise in and out one another
was just about to give orders to
Dnt on the oil cngines.-aias, What
was that?
That dark stripe over there. wasn't
that a smoke nag?
Eut it's already gone. hidden behind
the back Of rising wave. rising into
the dawn gray sky.
lrE WAITS AND SrARI:s
UNTIL HIS EYES ACHE
waited ana stared through the glass
till nay eyes achcd.
There ii was again: it was :, dark
smoke -iidg-and there. look. \ mas;
top. thin as needle. but l h:.ve II In
my glass. and now. nov. ] bore my eyes
into the glass. What is II that comes
out Of the veil OF waves. that dark
thing over ;hcre-thc smoke above Il.
four low tunnels.
Donncrwr;tcr. it's destroyer.
With ono leap am back IN the tur-
ret, lave closed the tower hatch
Alarm Suhmcrgc puicklyr' "Fiu-
tcn!' Depth rndder," 90 To twenty
meters"
The commands followed one another
as In Il breath. Isn't their execution.
With this sea Ia submcrgc hcndlong
is, according To all experiences, sheer
insanity.
But what viii, do?
The destroyer might have seen us
already.
Down We went, and in az big a
hurry ~ posIihlr, too.
Below me-. In tn" "sentrar' the men
are working Ia rrvcrish. noiScless haste.
The vents are open. j. The compressed
air misses from the tanlts--the sub.