The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-07-11
GERMAN U-B0AT


Arrives at American POrt-French
Captured Positions Near FlaucOurt
Merchant Submarine Is I'm
armed - Passes Blockade
OF Allies and Eludes
Many Enemy
Cruisers.
Bridgeport, Conn, uly 9-In an eff
fort to establish the American patents
ON his type of submarine, Simon Lake,
Treasurer of the Lake Torpedo Boat
Company of this city, said tonight that
the company would very likely libel
the German submarine Deutschland at
Baltimore tomorrow. The allegation
it is understood, will be that the con-
struction of the German boat involves
an infringement of the Lake patents.
Baltimreo, Md, July 9--lt was learn
ed late today that the Deutschland car
ries two guns of small caliber mount
ed on the superstructure so as to be
readily available for defensive use
Baltimore, July 9-The worlds first
submarine merchantmen, the German
underwater liner Deutschland, an
chored below baltimore tonight after
voyaging safely across the Atlantic,
passing the allied blockading squad
rons and eluding enemy cruisers
watching for her off the American
coast.
tons of costly chemicals and dyestuffs,
and is to carry back home a similar
amount of nickel and crude rubber
sorely needed by the German army
1t is said it brings message to Presi-
dent Wilson, but this has not been
confirmed.
Fifteen days out from Bremerhaven
to Baltimore, the submarine reached
safety in the vicinity of the capes at
HAS o'clock this morning, passing in
on the surface covered by a heavy fall
of darkness which settled over the en-
trance of the bay with the setting of
tell-tale half moon. Once inside the
visitor threw caution aside and began
shrieking his siren. signalling a pilot
and at the same time attracting the at
tention of the tug Thomas F. Timmons,
which had been waiting in the lower
bay for nearly two weeks to greet the
Deutschland and convey her into port.
Three hours later, at 4:45 o'clock
this morning, the big submarine start
ed up the bay, with the German mer-
chant flag flying, under her own pow
er, piloted by Captain Frederick c.
Cooke, of the Virginia. Pilots Assocla-
ton and conveyed by the Timmons,
She was making more than twelve
knots an hour. and could have locked
in Baltimore tonight, but arrangements
had been made for receiving her with
formal ceremonies tomorrow and her
Captain was ordered to wait in the
lower harbor. He and his crew of
twenty-nine men remained aboard
their craft.
Regarding his vessel as a merchant
man, subject to no unusual restrlc-
tons. the skipper, whose name is said
to be Captain Kairig, went up the
Chesapeake without waiting to notify
local customs and quarantine authori-
ties of his presence. He was FIVE
hours away before Norman Hamilton,
Collector of Norfolk-Newport News.
heard the news. and started on his
trail abroad the coastguard cutter
Onandagua. At last reports tonight
the cutter had not approached the sub
marine, and ii is understood that she
merely was ordered out TO keep the
strange craft under surveillance as
neutrality precaution. Quarantine and
port regulations would be complied
with when the vessel moves up TO her
dock tomorrow.
Little was known here tonight about
what happened during the epoch-mak-
ing cruise across the ocean. which, IN
a small measure at least. breaks the
blockade ON German trade with the
rest OF the world. None Of the sub
marines crew had landed and the
agents OF her owners had received only
meager reports.