The Detroit times., 1916-07-10
SUBMARINE
ARRIVES IN
BALTIMORE
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/ through Chesapeake bay ana Is
ready 20 dock as soon As permitted.
When customs men and doctors
scrambled aboard the submarine.
| they wrote fms 10 the first chapter
of one of the biggest and most
dramatic marine CANDLES OF all
time.
II was the frst-time-in-history trip
Of the worlds largest submarine.
She came In laden with cargo for
which America has been clamoring
many months. Today her hacker
talked OF a regular line of ocean
going submarines between the faith
erland and America.
Capt. Koenig, German commander,
|was on deck when the strange craft
dropped anchor off quarantine. He
bore the air of man who realized
his venture was epochal.
AS she moved UP the river to
quarantine. putting little and
spreading an oily cmoke behind. the
Deutschland was spoken by news-
papermen. II VAS cold re-
ception. Only monosyllables and
terse replies were forthcoming.
There had been no trouble. they
were told, no allied ships sighted,
nor any chasing by warships.
Heligoland vas named as The point
OF departure, and June % the date OF
leaving.
She vas a strange sight, silhout-
ted by searchlights against the driz-
zling dark.
Small\eraft piled near at hand.
Feverish newspapermen sought the
story OF the remarkable journey past
lurking allied ships across the Allan
tic-the running OF a blockade that
England had claimed could not be
pierced.
Not until hours after she arrived
quarantine did American officials
take any action. Then Custocms
Collector Ryan, with doctors and
other officials, boarded the Deutsch-
land. examined her crsw OF 20.
viewed her manifest, and talked a
time with the blue-coated. white-cap.
/ ped submariners.
When the examination VAS com.
plete, The Deutschland, now Ranked
by scows and tugs. continued on her
way to the gun protected wharf Of
her consignee. the Eastern Forward
ing company. Henry G. Hihen, Sc
nior member OF the A. SCHUMACHER
a. Co., interested In the North Ger
mar Lloyd line, and the forwarding
concern, boarded her. with his son.
Paul G. Hilken, Swedish vice consul
and member of the North German
Lloyd agency. Tears were In the
mems eyes as they embraced the
stolid Capt. koenig.
ZACH, Gott. es ist schoen ooh, God,
this is beautifully. said the elder
one of the dreamers who dreamed
the Ocean Rhederei G. NJ. b. H., or
Ocean Navigation Co, Ltd. and
its progeny, the undersea cargo car.
rier.
They then went into secret ses-
sion. They must consider what
would be the reception and the pro.
cedure with this giant stranger in
strange harbor. What should they
40 about her stay. and was she en-.
titled TO the haven and protection
OF the United States as a peaceful
merchantmen? They thought so.
When should she return? They
did not know--or, at least, they
weren't telling
Arrived in the middle branch OF
the Patapsco river the Deutschland
pulled alongside the pier of the
Eastern Forwarding Co.
Down the stream lay British
merchant ship with the Union Jack
streaming from her masthead. The
men aboard the submarine smiled a
hard smile. They had fooled and
Haunted England.
Work OF discharging the dyestuif
, and other merchandise. amounting
TO from 500 to 1000 tons, started
, early. Sturdy Germans. with clos,
. cropped Won iHndenburg hair. wen
about their tasks joyfully.
Armed guards stood watch. Their,
should be no spies A veritabl
screen OF barbed wire ianked IN.