Arizona republican., 1916-07-11

the microphone, the other a sounding apparatus. With the microphone you can hear submarine bell buoys six miles away and the propellers of ships still farther By the tone of the noise made by the screw of vessel you can tell her type. A destroyers makes a loud hum cruisers is lower.
 The sounding apparatus can be worked while we are running sub
 merged and is let down through the bottom of the boat through a tube equipped with valves. Ir this sub
 marine We can do everything under the surface that we can do on it. We can drop anchor while submerged | cruise below the surface four days if necessary or lie still on the bottom
 until our food and water gives out And you can believe me that we can carry a large quantity of both."5 Captain Koenig was asked how he 1 and his men employed their time while making the voyage.
 Well" he said, we had phono-
 graphs. They were a source of much i enthusiasm We had about 100 rec ords There were some American
 rag time songs. some marches and
 some dances Selections from Peer | Gynt is what we played to pass away the time at the bottom of the
 English channel. No. we didn't have
 record of "Tipperary."
 ! The captain seemed to enjoy the
 reference to the English marching
 song.
 "Of course" he continued. "all the
 men smoked while they were on deck ! It is forbidden to smoke below decl, in submarine There is the danger
 of fire and then. you know, there are all kinds of tobacco, good and bad.
 We read a lot. too. I have aboard a
 library of 40 volumes. There is l Shakespeare. Who wouldn't have 1 Shakespeare in a library? I'll bet Shakespeare is more widely read in Germany than in England. And then
 read some of Bret Hart, w. W. l Jacobs Sea Tales, Mark Twains In
 nocents Abroad and Charles Dick
 ems. Oh. yes. I have a very fine
 English library. No. I haven't got
 Jules Vernes Twenty Thousand
 League Under the Sea. It requires
 too much imagination to read that. T am the oldest man on the boat
 I am 49 and the youngest member
 of the crew is 21. Nearly all of us
 have left wives. and children behind
 in Germany I am native of Sax
 ony. but my home has been in Ere
 men since 1Ss3." 1 of hundreds of congratulatory tele-
 grams today from all sections of the country: Many of them came from
 German societies who were anxious to have. the commander and his of ficers as guests at dinners and other : functions. The local German color : is already making arrangements. t'
 give the crew celebration and al outing. Captain koenig and his of ficers probably will be guests of hon or at a formal dinner which it i
 planned to hold soon at the German 2 club.
 Simon Lake, submarine inventor came here today from Bridgeport Conn. and saw Captain Koenig. II
 refused to discuss the report that Il l. proposed to bring litigation agains s the Deutschland and her owners fo z alleged infringement of patents c y the Lake Torpedo Boat company. H declared that the chief purpose of hi visit was to congratulate tn Deutschlands commander for his ex ; ploit
 > Captain Koenig said that MT Lak ! had said nothing to him of any in tention to bring legal action. > The inventor visited the vessel l. a launch, but did not board her. II 5 was no exception Captain Koeni z explained, to his rule, that only fed erai officials will be allowed aboaIi "Mr Lake told me bis call wa . purely. a social one" the commando asserted "Ie said he had come u congratulate me and he was sori
 that it was not an American who wa L. first to cross the Atlantic in d sut II marine because the submarine w; $ an American invention. I met hi
 at an office in the city and we di! cussed the evolution of .the submf lo rine and the differences betWee er French and American types. I said nothing about bringing legal at ls tion."