Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-07-14
GREATEST FEAT OF
GERMAN SUBMARINE
FIRST CRAFT OF KIND ARRIVES
AT BALTIMORE AFTER AN
EPOCH-MAKING CRUISE.
WAS NOT ARMED FOR WAR
Enemy Vessels EIuded-750-Ton Car
go-Message from the Kaiser to
Wilson-Greatest Feat of
Modern Times.

Baltimore, July 9.-The worlds first
submarine merchant marine, the Ger
man underwater liner Deutschland,
anchored at quarantine below Balti-
more at IL o'clock tonight after voy-
aging safely across the Atlantic, pass
ing the allied blockading squadrons
and eluding enemy cruisers watching
for her off the American coast. She
carried mail and cargo of $50 tons
of costly chemicals and dyestuffs, and
amount of nickel and crude rubber
sorely needed by the German army.
Comes in During Night.
Sixteen days out from Bremen
haven to Baltimore, the submarine
reached safety between the Virginia
capes at LAS o'clock this morning,
passing in on the surface, covered by
a heavy pail of darkness which set
tied over the entrance of the bay
with the setting of a tell-tale half
moon. Once inside the visitor threw
caution aside and began shrieking
his siren signaling a pilot, and at the
same time attracting the attention of
the tug Thomas F. Timmons, which
had been waiting in the lower bay
for nearly two weeks to greet the
Deutschland and convoy her into
port.
Flies German Flag.
Three hours later, at 4:45 o'clock
this morning, the big submarine
started up the bay with the German
merchant flag flying, under her own
power, piloted by Captain Frederick
d. Cooke of the Virginia Pilots asso-
citation, and conveyed by the Tim
mons She was making more than 70
knots an hour, and could have locked
in Baltimore tonight, but arrange
ments had been made for receiving
her with formal ceremonies tomor-
row and her captain was ordered to
wait in the lower harbor. He and his
crew of 20 men remained aboard the
craft.
Cutter in Pursuit.
Regarding his vessel as a merchant
man subject to no unusual restric-
tions, the skipper, whose name is said
to be Captain Kairig, went up the
Chesapeake without waiting to no
tify local customs and quarantine au-
thorities of his presence. He was
five hours away before Norman Ham
ilton, collector of Norfolk-Newport
News, heard the news, and started on
his trail aboard the coast guard cut
ter Onondaga.
Captain Delivers His Papers.
Baltimore, Md, July 1.-THE dar-
submarine merchantmen Deutschland
across the Atlantic slept quietly Mon
day night aboard their vessel, which
lay moored to a carefully screened
pier, guarded by strong squad of
Baltimore police. Captain Paul Koe-
mig, the skipper, had delivered his
papers to the North German-Lloyd
office, entered his vessel at the GUS
tom house as a commerce carrier,
and had presented to a German en-
bassy official a packet of correspond.
ence for Count Won Bernstorff.
Return Cargo Ready.
The submarine is ready to dis.
charge her $1,0OO,O0O cargo of dye.
stuffs and take on board for the re-
turn trip to Germany metal and rub
Der needed by the emperor's armies
and navy.
The return merchandise is waiting
on the dock and the time for leaving
port will depend largely upon plans
for eluding vigilant enemy cruisers
expected to be waiting outside the
entrance to Chesapeake bay for the
temperance of the vessel.
One of Captain Koenig's first acts
after he moved his ship up the har
Dor from quarantine was to announce
that the Deutschland is but one of a
fleet of mammoth submersibles built
or building for a regular transatlantic
freight and mail service. He said
the next to come will be the Bremen
and that she may be looked for al
some port along the coast within the
next eight weeks.
The German captain submitted his
craft to a thorough inspection by the
surveyor of the port and an agent oil
the department of justice. These of
ficials agreed that there is no sign
of armament of any description OIL
board and that there is no doubt in
their minds about the boat being en-
titled to the status of an ordinary
merchantmen.
Captain Is 40 Years Old.
Il am the oldest man on the boat
l am 40 years old and the youngest
member of the crew is Fl. Nearly
all of us have left wives and children
behind in Germany. l am a native
of Saxony. but my home has been il
Bremen since 1888"
Captain Koenig was the recipient