The Green Forest tribune., 1916-07-21
|1R|P OF UNDERSEA
 CRAFT THRILLING
,tory of Voyage of German U- Boat Across Ocean Out
 rivals Fiction.
H0sT|LE SHIPS ARE DODGED
submarine, During Hazardous $500. Mile Run, Submerged Many Times to Escape Possible Attack
 From Enemy.

Baltimore, Md.-Pictures of adven,
 ure no less thrilling than those which i fill the pages of Jules Verne's 'gTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea-" are called up by the amazing story of the uip of the German U-boat Deutsch,
 land across the Atlantic ocean-a voy.
 age that has been pronounced the most
 daring in the history of the sea.
 The story of the remarkable voyage made by this submarine-the first to cross the Atlantic ocean-through a maze of hostile warships, has been told simply by Capt. Paul Koenig, com mander of the undersea craft.
 Koenig was modest about it all. He had few words of praise for his crew aud none for himself. When he spoke of the fatherland his eyes spar kled and his whole body twitched with eagerness. When he talked of "just dropping down when he saw a de- stroyer" his voice was calm.
 Would He Surrender?
 Just once did he display real emo- ion. That was when toward the end ,f the interview this question was uddenly shot at him:
 Suppose on your way back, just s you left the Virginia capes, you saw
 destroyer bearing mercilessly down pon you. Suppose there wasn't time 3 dodge, wasn't time to submerge. hat would you do? Would you sur ,nder?"
 The undersea slippers face turned sudden red that looked queer under Is thick weather tan. His hands enched, his eyes flashed, then slowly lch word painfully thought out, came e answer:
 Would I surrender? I-couldn't Il about that-positively I can't. I mt know-surrender? I think the oment would bring the decision. Yes, at moment would carry its .oYa de- ion."
 That was the spoken reply, but in cry bit of the mans tone, in every line of his face could be read the al answer-Capt. Paul Koenig has no ention that the Deutschland shall CT fall into enemy hands.
 Fears No Enemy Warship. And he has every confidence that
 will take the Deutschland back to emen loaded with the rubber and kel that the Fatherland so craves
 its intuition factories. SIX, ten, dozen, twenty cruisers side will not stop us" he exclaimed. e will go back; we will go back ". And we will come again, and ers Will come and trade will go K and forth, and the British block that will be a thing to laugh at. The future of the submarine has been proved to be unlimited" he erted. 'There is practically no xlmum to their capacity; their has been perfected we 'e shown that they do anything any CT ship can do, and more besides. About that I am positive. The ing Of the Deutschland. $500 miles America, and her arrival with a ge of almost ten thousand miles with fuel and water and supplies
 everything for that much travel | aboard. shows that you can go | a submarine simply where you 1t to go."
 ,oenig is small man, ordinarily lng until he begins to talk. when
 force and personality become at Q apparent.
 First Submarine Trip. ne of the first questions asked of
 brought one of the most surpris- replies of the interview. Request o tell in detail of all the submarine erience he had before being select 70 attempt the crossing, he replied ,kly:
 5ut you see I have not had any. curse we practiced after we went afd. We practiced great deal. lgation I know. Submarines l k I know now.
 Vas it fun? Sometimes, yes. Most vas fun in the English channel. re we lay ten hours on the bottom, and comfortable. Some of us [ and some of us read, and most listened to our graphophone play a beautiful song from "Peer Gynt, e above us ragged the destroyers
 cruisers that would have thought he very choicest of prey had they known what lay hidden there be-
 them. It was not long ten $. We drank a little champagne
 we ate and attended to the ma cry.
 10, we didn't submerge because Of cruiser chasing us; not once were :hased."
 How They Submerged. othing mWe vivid about adven- could be drawn from Koenig than detailing of these times we Just ." As far as his words went, that all there was to it. A vessel was ed; the Deutschland was quickly ,erged; she ran along under water a time, and then-she came up opened her hatches for fresh air 9 officers and men went about
 work, their rest, or their play