The Alaska daily empire., 1916-07-18
DEUTSCHLAND'S CAPTAIN LAUGHS
 OVER HIS TRIP
Denies that He Went off Regular Route = Went
 Under Water for
 Only 90 Miles.
INCIDENTS ABOUT TRIP

The arrival of the German submar inc freight carrier Deutschland m Baltimore last week was one of the big events. Her arrival and other lincidentals of her trip have been told ] in the Empires daily dispatches The following accounts have been taken from the latest papers arriving rom the east and give the Deutschland ds construction and other interesting information.
 Captain Paul Konig's own story or the Deutschlands voyage across the ocean was told to newspaper cor respondents soon after his arrival m Baltimore. He laughed at stories or : his being chased far off his course by enemy vessels and declared that during the entire trip his vessel tray- eled submerged only about ninety miles.
 "I have seen" continued the cap tain. "statements that we were forced Go go hundreds of miles out of our course in the Atlantic because or British warships This is not SO. Why should we go out of our course except tO submerge? That Is the simplest and most effective way Go get out of her course. Besides. 'it is much easier to submerge.
 Used Direct Route
 We came to Hampton Roads by the straight course from the English channel. We did not come by way Of the Azores. Altogether from Heli- gOIand Co Baltimore we covered $500 miles. or that distance ninety miles were driven under the surface of the water
 Throughout the entire trip the of [ lcers and crew were in excellent health and spirits or course. when we were under water for long spells the air got very stuffy sometimes and there was some inconvenience, ! but it was never serious The Deutschland is built 10 stay under water for four consecutive days, so ! you see we never reached anywhere near our submersion limit on this voyage.
 "The ship is much easier 10 ride m I than a torpedo boat destroyer; much steadier. Nothing can happen Go her. she is so perfectly built. or course. she rolls a little at times. but that Is no handicap.
 Any nation that can build a ship Hike the Deutschland can do what we dld."
 Commander Is Enthusiastic
 The German commander talked ! with the smiling enthusiasm Of a child. and his eyes fairly ghttered as he related the principal incidents oC his remarkable feat.
 There is little Go tell ot the trip he continued. "We left Helgoland on June % and steamed on the sur 1 face Co the North Sea. Before sail ing we conducted trial trips and drills for the crew for ten days or two weeks. having proceeded from ! Bremen to our starting point ] had never been on a submarine voyage and all the training l had was re- ,eived in the practice trips Of the Deutschland.
 ''Eyerything went without incident the first day. but on the second day in the North Sea we were in the zone Of the British cruisers and de stroyers. We sighted their smoke frequently. but only dived when we thought there was danger of being detected. or course. we were ditfi- cult Go see because we were running SO low and our ship gave no smoke. We did submerge several times m the North Sea, staying under some times two hours and sometimes less. Every time we came 10 the surface if all looked well we kept on going. We saw no British battleships in the North Sea, only cruisers and destroy CTS or at least what we took for British naval vessels.
 Simple Work To Dodge
 .We did not on the entire trip come into close proximity with any man of war. We avoided them all.