The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1916-07-14
GERMAN U-DOAT
REACHES U. S,
Deutschland foIIs British Block.
ade in Stirring Triumph.
B0BS UP OFF NORFOLK, VA,


with Arrival of Merchant Subma
rine-u. s. VIII Treat Diver as Mer
chant Ship-Great Britain Protests
Boat Is Without Armor.
Washington, July 10.-The u boat
liner which passed through the Vir.
ginia capes will be treated by the
United States government as a mer.
chant ship.
The vessel will be permitted to dis
charge her cargo. to take on a cargo
for the return voyage. and sufficient
gasoline and other stores to enable
her to reach home.
This program of the state depart.
ment is based upon official reports
that the German underwater boat is
not armed with torpedoes and is not
fitted with torpedo tubes. 1t also has
been reported that she has no guns.
but even II she has. and the claim
should be advanced that they are in.
tended for defensive purposes only,
her status as merchant ship will not
be changed in the view of this gov
eminent.
The British embassy is preparing to
demand that the vessel be treated as
a warship and required to leave Amer.
lean waters within twenty-four hours
or interned.
The British contention proceeds on
the assumption that submarine is
in character a war vessel, and that
1t would be an easy matter for such
craft to equip itself with guns and
torpedoes from a small vessel await
ing it at sea.
Carries Big Cargo.
Norfolk, July 10.-Carrying a cargo
of 1000 tons of dyestuffs, a quantity
of mail and message from Emperor
William to President Wilson, the
much-heralded German submrine mer-
chairman, the Deutschland, arrived at
Norfolk at las in the morning after
an uneventful journey from a German
port.
Unarmed and manned by crew in
marine uniforms in charge of Captain
Kairig, the submersible proceeded up
the bay for Baltimore, where it is ex.
pected to dock. The cargo is assign.
ed to A. Schumacher & Co. at Balti.
more, and it is expected that cargo
of toluol will be taken aboard there
for shipment back to Germany.
Conveyed by U. S. Cutter.
The Deutschland was conveyed
up the bay by the tug Thomas F.
Timmins, with the coast guard cutter
Onodaga, with Collector Norman Ham,
ilton of this port on board, in her
wake. The Deutschland was met at
the capes on her arrival by the tug
Timmins, which stood by until day.
light, when the journey up the bay
was started.
Schumacher & Co., the consignees,
are the agents at Baltimore for the
North German Lloyd Line.
Henry G. Hilken, head of the Bal
timore Office of the Lloyd line, said
the submarine is an unarmed mer.
chant vessel carrying medicines and
dyestuffs, and would enter at the GUS
tom house there Monday morning as
such.
The Deutschland left German mort
June %. She Is commanded by Cap
tain Kairig and carries a crew OF
twenty-nine men, The submersihle
flew no flag until arriving in the bay,
when German merchant marine in.
sigma was run up.
The visitors will be kept under SUI
veillance, as a matter of neutrality
precaution, until questions touching
on her status under international law
are settled.
Expected at New York.
The arrival of the Deutschland had
been heralded for the last month or
more, and week ago, according I
an advertisement in a Baltimore Aus.
trian newspaper, was said to be rest
ing at the bottom of the Chesapeake.
First announcements from Germany
said the diver would enter the port
at New York. It's Lobbing up any
where along the Atlantic seaboard
was Therefore not unexpected.
Details Of the great submersible's
dimensions are lacking, but dispatches
from Berlin have stated that the 300
foot length of the undersea merchant.
man exceeded all war purpose sub
mesibles in size and oualities NJ on.