The Dermott news., 1916-07-20
Story of Voyage of German U- Boat Across Ocean Out
 rivals Fiction.
HOSTILE SHIPS ARE LODGED
Submarine, During Hazardous $500 Mile Run, Submerged Many Times to Escape Possible Attack
 From Enemy.

HI lNe pdBtS Ol JuitS verne A"tllS Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" are called up by the amazing story of the trip 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-tthrough maze of hostile warShipg has been told simply by Capt. Eul koenig, com mander of the /nndersea craft.
 koenfg was modest about it all. He had a few words of praise for his crew and none for himself. When he spoke of the fatherland his eyes spar kied 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 lion. That was when toward the end of the interview this question was suddenly shot at him:
 Suppose on your way back, just
 
 destroyer bearing merclessly down upon you. Suppose there wasn't time to dodge, wasn't time to submerge, what would you do? Would you sur render?'
 The undersea slippers face turned a sriden red that looked queer under his thick weather tan. His hands cienched his eyes flashed, then slowly each word painfully thought out, came the answer:
 "Would I surrender? I-couldn't tell about that-positively I can't. don't know-Surrendcr? think the moment would bring the decision. les, that moment would carry it's own de, ciSion.'
 That was the spoken reply, hut in every bit of the mans tone in every set line of his face could be read the real anSwer-Capt Paul Koenig has no intention that the Deutschland shall ever fall into enemy hands.
 Fears No Enemy Warship
 And he has every confidence that he will take the Deutschland back to Bremen loaded with the rubber and nickel that the Fatherland so graves for it's intuition factories.
 'SiX, ten, a dozen, twenty cruisers outside will not stop us" he exclaimed. 'We will go back; We will go back easy. And We will come again. and others Will come and trade will go back and forth, and the British block ade-that will be thing to laugh at. "The future of the submarine has now been proved to be unlimited" he asserted "There is practically no maximum to their capacity: their nschanism has been perfected we have shown that they do anything any other ship can do, and more besides About that I am positive The coming of the Deutschland. $500 miles to America, and her arrival with range of almost ten thousand miles left with fuel and water and supplies and everything for that much travel still aboard, shows that you can go with submarine simply where you want to go"
 Kocnig is a small man, ordinarily looking until he begins to talk, when his force and personality become at once apparent.
 First Submarine Trip.
 One of the first questions asked of him brought one of the most SurpriS- ing replies of the interview Request ed to tell in detail of all the submarine experience he had before being select ed to attempt the crossing, he replied quickly:
 ''But you see I have not had any. Of course we practiced after we went aboard. We praeticed great deal, Navigation I know. Submarines think I know now
 "Was 1t fun? Sometimes yes. Most it was fun in the English channel. There we lay ten hours on the bottom. snug and comfortable Some of us slept and some of us read and most of us listened to our graphophone play ing a beautiful song from Peer Gynt." while above us ragged the deStroyers and cruisers hat would have thought us the very choicest of prey had they but known what lay hidden there be- low them. It was not q long ten hours. we urank a utIle cnalnpaSne, and we ate and attended to the ma chinery.
 'ANo. we didn't submerge because of any cruiser chasing us; not once were we chased"
 How They Submerged
 Nothing mWe vivid about ndven- ture could be drawn from Koenig than the detailing of these times i've just sank." As far as his words went, that was all there was to it. A vessel was sighted; the Deutschland was quickly submerged she ran along under water for time, and then-she came up and opened her hatches for fresh air, while officers and men went about aheif work. their rest, or their play.