Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-08
TONS OF SILVER BULLION
 ARRIVE FOR DEUTSCHLAND
Brought to New London on the o.x
 Train Early Tuesday Morning.


 One hundred and seventy-two bars of silver. each bar weighing 75 pounds, making a shipment valued at S142,- 900, were received by the New London Adams Express Co. office at Union station Tuesday morning.
 The silver is to be shipped aboard the Deutschland and the Eastern For. warding Co. was the shipper and con- signee. It was one of the most val uable shipments the New London ex- press office ever received.
 When the Owl train from New York pulled into the New London station at 3.30 Tuesday morning Night Foreman Fitzgerald and three or four employees quietly set to work to unload con- signment that. had the good citizens of New London known about, would have attracted widespread attention. For aside from the monetary value of the silver the fact that it was to be placed aboard the Deutschland and spirited past and possibly under allied Warships, would have been the cause pre- election sleep in order to get a glimpse of the silver.
 Night Foreman Fitzgerald and his men fell to work and in 10 minutes there was in the Adams Express Co. office 112 bars of silver each bar be- ing valued at $825. The silver remain ed there until 7.30 when it was speed fly loaded into wagons of the express company and transported up State street, into Main, and over to the state pier, where it found it's resting place in the big undersea liner.
 The bars bore the San Francisco mint mark. They had been held in New York for quite a while, and were shipped from there. They were about foot long, six inches wide and about six inches thick. They resembled in shape huge square loaves of bread and their color was almost the same as the type metal that is used in com posing rooms.
 The procession through the business section attracted but little attention. Five of the Adams Express Co.'S wa gons were required to successfully t transport the silver. In the wagon at tie head of the file rode Carl B. Pi- mer,. the Adams Express Co.'s agent uninitiated that the precious shipment was unguarded, save for the drivers. But had they known it. there strolled along the street, ever in touch with the procession, four or five armed guards, who appeared to be simply casual pedestrians.
 The wagons went through the streets about 7.45 a. rn., the pigs of silver lying uncovered on the bottom of the vehicles. Thus was one of the most valuable shipments ever con signed by rail for New London quiet ly and expeditiously disposed of.
 Count von Bernstorff, German ann bassador to the United States, and Countess von sBernstorf paid visit to the undersea freighter Deutschland at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning. They made the trip from the Mohican llo- tel to the state steamship terminal in the Hilken automobile, with the flags of this nation and Germany flying from the front of the car. As the au- tomobile drew up in front of the of fees of the Eastern Forwarding Co.,. several motion picture operators be- gan reeling off as much films of the | incident as possible in the brief space allotted them.
 i The ambassador and his wife were | greeted by Captain Koenig and Cap tain Honsch and were immediately 1 ushered into the inner offices of the | escorted on board the Deutschland, where they spent considerable time i1 the interior of the remarkable craft. It was the first time Countess von Bernstorff l@d been on board a sub marine. She went through the vessels l lowest depths. looked through the per- | iscope and stepped into every com | partment. The ambassador, who reit- erated that his brief visit was entirely 1 a social one, did not make the inspec- | ton with the countess. Ambassador von Bernstorff denied formally that he had entrusted to Captain Koenig off, l cial mail addressed to the emperor of Germany. It was learned, however, | that certain mail matter from the Ger man embassy in Washington will be | carried by the Deutschland on her next | trip.
 In all Ambassador and Countess won Bernstorn spent nearly two hours at 1 the terminal. They returned to the l city in season to catch the Bay State 1 limited, leaving for New York at 1928.