Omaha daily bee., 1916-07-11
SUBSEA ENTERS
| BALTIMORE PORT
WITH DYE CARGO
Unarmed Submarine Flying the
German Merchant Flag Com.
pletes a Most Remark.
able Voyage. a.t
SEVERAL MORE TO COME
Captain Announces His Ship is
First of Fleet That Will Give
Regular Freight Service.
TAKES BACK RAW RUBBER
SEVERAL MORE TO COME
TAKES BACK RAW RUBBER
BULLETIN,

~ LhS I 44Ns
Baltimore, July 10.-The German
merchantmen submarine Deutschland
was entered formally at the Baltimore
customs house today without oppo-
sition.
Baltimore, Md, July 10-Definitc
announcement that the great German
submarine merchantmen Deutschland,
which reached Chesapeake Bay yes
terday, is the first OF fleet Of such
craft built to ply regularly in the
transatlantic trade, was made here
early today by Captain Paul KONG,
master of the supersubmarine.
This is not the only one that is
coming" said the captain. "Just wait,
there will be more here soon and we
are going back for another cargo. We
are going to have regular line"
Only Ninety Miles Under Sea-
II have seen," said the captain,
statements that we were forced to 60
hundreds of miles out of our course
in the Atlantic because of British
warships. This is not so; why should
we go out of our course, except to
submerge? That is the s.inplest and
most effective way to get out of our
course. Besides it is much easier to
submerge.
"We came to Hampton Roads by
the straight course from the English
channel. We did not come by the
:, " Of the Azores. Altogether from
Helgoland to Baltimore we covered
$500 miles. OF that distance ninety
miles were driven under the surface
of the water"
Captain Talks Freely.
1t was to port officials that the
captain talked, as his vessel was pre-
pairing to move up to the dock from
the lower harbor, where it dropped
anchor at II o'clock last night at the
end of its memorable voyage across
the Atlantic through lanes Of vigilant
enemy warships. He spoke freely to
the officers and laughed over his feat,
To newspaper men shouting questions6
over the ships side he was not SO
communicative, explaining that for
NAL statement would be issued later
by the representatives of his owners.
All during the night a considerable
part of the Deutchsland's crew had
been astir and small searchlight,
played almost constantly upon a news
paper yacht anchored near by. The
tug, Thomas F. Timmons, conveying
the submarine, also kept the yacht
under close surveillance.
Shortly after 4 o'clock, when day
light was beginning to show family
through heavy, low lying clouds and
steady drizzling rain, a boat with
health and customs officers aboard
put out from the quarantine station
and went alongside the submarine, To
the municipal health officer, DR..
Thomas L. Richardson, the skipper
presented his bill of health, issued to
him by William Thomas Fee, United
States consul at Bremen, on june IA.
The document describes the
Deutschland as "a vessel engaged in
the freight trade between Bremen and
Boston or other eastern Atlantic
ports" 1t records its gross tonnage
as 7ol, says is is newly built" has
cargo of dyestuffs in good condition
and "a wholesome supply OF water
from the Bremen waterworks."
Boat Carries No Guns.
One thing the boarding officers
noted particularly-there were no tor
pedo tubes or guns of any description
visible aboard the vessel. They had
been told it mounted two small ealiber
rifles for defense, but came ashore
convinced that the visitor was wholly
unarmed.
1t was learned that the boat left
Bremen with its load of about $50
tons of valuable dyestuffs, which its
owners hope to sell to Americans for
fortune. At Helgoland it waited
nine days, leaving there June Is to
plow deep beneath the surface OF
the North Sea to escape the watchful
eyes of the allied blockaders. Cap
tain KONG intimated that the pur-
pose of his long delay at Helgoland
was to deceive the enemy, who TN
doubtedly had heard runors of the
submarines coming. 1--WE stopped
there for very good reasons" the cap
tain explained, with broad smile.
Fourteen Knots an Hour.
This accounted for the belief in the
United States that the vessel was a
week overdue, a misapprehension
that caused German embassy officials