Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-10
Gigantic Submersible Runs
British Blockade and
Crosses Atlantic.
EPOCH MAKING TRIP
Loaded With Dyestuffs Yes
sci Is Heralded as New
Merchant Ship.

l Baltimore, July IO.-Defintte an
! nOUncement that the great Ger
man merchantmen DeutChland,
which reached Chesapeake bay
yesterday, is the first of a fleet of
such craft built TO ply regularly in
the transatlantic trade was made
j here early today by Captain Paul
KOnig, master of the super-subma-
rine.
|'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 an
other cargo. We are going to have
a regular line
1t was to port officials that the cap
| tain talked, as his vessel was prepar-
| ing to move up to dock from the lower
harbor, where she dropped anchor at
IL o'clock last night at the end of her
memorable voyage across the At
lantic through lanes of vigilant enemy
warships. He spoke freely TO the Off
GERS and laughed over his feat. To
newspapermen shouting questions
over the ships side he was not so COM
municative, explaining that a formal
statement would be issued later by the
! representatives of his owners.
Upon delivering his aims papers to
the officers of the North German-Lloyd
| line today, Captain Paul KONG OF the
submarine merchantmen Deutschland
! issued a formal statement declaring
his voyage across the Atlantic had
broken England's rule of the seas.
The statement, typewriter on the
stationary of the Deutsche Ozean-Rhe-
herei, G. NJ. b. G., Berlin. announced
that the Deutschland was the first of
several submarines built for the trans
followed by the Bremen"
From the custom house Captain
KONG returned to his vessel, joining
his crew in the cramped quarters in
which they have lived for more than
three weeks. So far no arrangement
has been made for either officers or
men to live ashore while the subma-
rine is preparing for her return voy-
age home.
Keep Searchlight on Yacht.
All during the night a considerable
part of the Deutschland's crew had
been astir and a small searchlight
played almost constantly upon a news
paper yacht anchored nearby. 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 drilling rain, a boat with
health and customs officials aboard put
out from the quarantine station and
went alongside the submarine. To
municipal health officers, DR.. Komas
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 her gross tonnage
at 791. says she is newly built" has
a cargo of dyestuffs in good condition
and "a wholesome supply Of water
from the Bremen waterworks."
Submarine Not Armed.
One thing the boarding officers noted
particularly-there was no torpedo
tubes or guns of any description visi-
BILE aboard the vessel, They had been
told that she mounted two small cali
bre rifles for defense but came ashore
convinced that the visitor was wholly
unarmed.
1t was learned that the boat left Bre-
men with her load OF about $50 tons
of valuable dyestuffs which her owners
hope to sell TO American manufac-
turers for fortune. At Helgoland she
waited nine days, leaving there June
% to plough deep beneath the surface
of the North sea TO escape the watch
full eyes of the allied blockaders.
We stopped there for very good
reasons" the captain explained with a
broad smile.
This accounted for the belief I'm the
United States that the vessel was a
week overdue, a Misrepresentation that
caused German embassy officials to
fear that she had run into allied war
ships or fallen victim TO an Atlantic
Continued on Pege Two.i