Middletown transcript., 1916-07-15
CROSSED SEA
IN IS DAYS
Unarmed German Submarine
With Merchandise.
SHE IS NOT A WAR VESSEL
Captain Kairig Calls Trip "UneVent-
fuI"-saiIors EIated BY Success
and Challenge Britain AS
mistress OF Seas"

BaltimOre.-Th0 German merchant
submarine Deutschland, Captain Paul
KONG, which arrived in the bay Sun
day morning after 16-day trip from
Bremerhaven is tied up at the dock
constructed especially for her near the
piers of the Mclean Contracting Com
pany, Spring Gardens.
A heavy guard Of special policemen
surrounds the pier and no one except
officials of the Eastern Forwarding
Company and A. Schumacher & Co.,
| to which the vessel is consigned, is
permitted to enter the inclosure.
The undersea freighter carries a
cargo of dyestuffs and big sack of
mail for Count Won Bernstorf. the
German Ambassador, bearing the In
perial German seal.
A message from Emperor William
to President Wilson is reported to be
in this mail sack.
The only arms aboard the Deutsch-
land are four automatic pistols, car
ried by the officers, and a small
SpOICSuldu llAS uSCu AOl A4AHS
| rockets.
Just when the Deutschland will
leave for her return voyage is a secret.
Her return cargo of nickel and rubber
is stored on the pier.
Docks In Spring Gardens.
The big German submarine mer-
chantman-the Santa Maria of the
Twentieth Century-is anchored OF
Quarantine.
While we were submerged on the
trip across" her captain told Deputy
Quarantine Officer John c. Travers,
I'VE could hear a pin drop in any posi-
tion on the boat, but when we came
to the surface the noise and confusion
was deafening and distracting"
The perilous voyage, according to
her master, Captain Konig, was made
without mishap, though the captain
admitted to DR.. Travers that many
times the Deutschland was chased
hundreds of miles out of her course by
what he believed to be hostile battle
ships and other kinds of war craft"
Every man on board the submarine
was delighted at the success of the
voyage, despite its many perils, but
the lips of everyone were sealed by
represe esentatives of the Eastern For
warding Company. which has charge
Of her cargo of dyestuffs.
Crew Looks Happy.
Their faces wreathed in smiles, the
officers and crew lined up before
Quarantine Officer Thomas L. Rich
ardson and his dtputy, DR.. Travers,
and answered satisfactorily all ques-
tions put to them. Then they hud-
died about on the top deck of the
submarine merchantmen and quietly
talked among themselves. Represen-
tatives of the Eastern Forwarding
Company refused to allow anybody to
board the craft except Drs. Richardson
and Travers and a customs official.
Congratulated by the Quarantine
officers, Captain Konig said a regular
line of submarine merchantmen Of
the type of the Deutschland will be
established here, and predicted that
in the future it will be a common
sight for Baltimoreans to see sub
marine merchantmen. From unof1-
cial reports, however, 1t is not sup
posed the Deutschland will leave her
dock at the foot of Hull street on her
return voyage to Bremen before
August.
Cargo OF Dyestuffs.
The submarine, according to the
official report made to Drs. Richardson
and Travers, is in perfect condition.
Her cargo, valued at hundreds of thou
sands of dollars, consists entirely of
dyestuffs.
The Deutschland is unarmed, ac-
cording to her officers and the Quar-
antine authorities. and her only means
of evading the warships and fighting
craft that chased her was her sub
merging machinery and ability to out
run any craft that pursued her.