New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-02
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Deutschland Cargo

: ing tnem up, captain koenlg Is AT
/ BOSWELL, he makes a shrewd guess a,
that-to explain how the British naval
attache. Captain Guy Gaunt, had such
accurate advance information Of his
arrival.
No more recently than last Friday
Captain Gaunt announced that the
Deutschland had run the blockade sue
cessfully and was due to make an
American port on November /. This in
the face of cabled news that both the
Deutschland and the Bremen had been
sunk or captured.
"If / must make a guess" said Cap
tain Koenig. rejecting on this, IL
should say there is a British spy in
Bremerhaven. and from what | know
of the manner in which we left
should make a further guess he is a
good one"
Calm fell with the last three days OF
the voyage, an augury Of America S
hospitable welcome. No Mans Land
was reached at 3 o'clock yesterday af-
ternoon, and the chartroom claimed
Captain koenig
Chart of 1860 His Guide
1t was an English chart of New Lon
don harbor. dated 1860. that he had
TO guide him. And the knighted skip
per wants it understood that the
soundings the English made were all
wrong. But, right or wrong, Captain
Koenig needed no pilot on the three
hour run from No Mans Land to the
mouth of the harbor.
The last vessel he sighted, by the
way, was encountered between New
London and Nantucket. Captain
Koenig thought she had four tunnels,
but was willing TO compromise, when
told that the Lusitania was the last
four-funnel liner in service, on has
conviction that she was large ana
fast passenger vessel.
Anyway, he showed his respect for
her by diving, and ran submerged until
he was within the three-mile limit. In
the United States territorial waters ne
was picked up by the tug Eco, under
charter TO the Eastern Forwarding
Company.
Having brought his vessel to port in
shipshape narrative style, the skipper
was forced out of his first line de-
fences by a flying wedge of question
askers and somewhat evasively an
swered some of the queries shot by
those who would sit vigorously at the
Kaiser's table. 1t was in this wise he
spoke:
"Oh, yes; yes, did see the Kaiser.
Dine with him? Well-oh, if you
know it already, yes. He was very
kind and friendly. Yes, ] did see
about all the great people Of Germany
Won Hindenburg and the Nice-Chan-
cellor and the Empress. The Kaiser
Oh. he looked little white, but he
seemed well. noticed he was very
attentive to what told him about
what did tell him? Ach, you
should know. ! told him only nice
things. said that the United States
had been neutral, so far as l was COZ
cerned. and that the people OF Balti-
more had given me very nice recep-
ton, very nice"
So far and no farther would the cap
tain 20 in his not altogether SPIRITED
description of the Kaiser's dinner for
him-right then.
Skipper Tells Of Trip
After that it was, perforce until
Paul Hlken came to the rescue-one of
those formal ready Misunderstanding
notables interviews. The skipper
seemed perfectly willing to let it go on
indefinitely, and the reporter from
Cos Cob was at one time teetering on
the verge of getting Captain Koenig's
opinion on Americas young woman
hood. But Paul Hilken's arrival was
neatly synchronized to the exhaustion
of the heavy ammunition.
Before he came Germany's hero of
commerce had politely negatived sug-
eestion that his countrymen were
unanimous in their demand for re-
sumption of ruthless submarine war
fare.
81 do not believe it," he said. 81
heard nothing of II"
"How long will you stay this trip"
81 think that in a fortnight you will
not see me any more here"
"Will you make another voyage or
wait for spring and better weather."
81 keep right on going and coming"
said the captain. "The Deutschland is
not a yacht for pleasure"
The captain said he thought the
Deutschland. the only commercial sub
marine the United States knows at first
lend, would bring the next undersea
cargo here.
Yes" he said, 81 give up the
Bremen"
"But how about the Amerika?'
"There is no Amerika. She was con-
tcmplated, but never built. She was
only name. There were only two,
the Deutschland and the Bremen-and
the Bremen is gone. So the Deutsch-
land comes back" .,
Proud as he is of the Deutschland's
record (already, if her earnings on the
second trip are in proportion to her
first, she has paid for herself seven