Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-10
BAL LT|MORE PLANS TO GIVE
FORMAL WELCOME TO-DAY
Submarine Anchors Below City Until
This Morning, When She Will
Tie Up ut Dock.
ARMED MEN ON WATCH AT PIER
Captain Denies Being Chased by
British or French Vesscls-Strong
Intimations That Another Under
water Boat Is on Way Across.

BALTIMORE. July 9.-The worlds
first submarine merchantman, the Ger
man underwater liner Deutschland,
anchored below Baltimore tonight.
after voyaging safely across the At
lantic. passing the allied blockading
squndrons. and Guiding enemy cruisers
watching for her off the American
coast. She carries mail and a cargo
of 1000 tons OF costly chemicals and
dyestuns. and is to carry back home
IL similar amount of nickel and crude
rubber. sorely needed by the German
army.
Sixteen days out from Bremcrhavcn
to Baltimore. the submarine passed
safely between the Virginia capes at
l:4a o'clock this morning. passing in
on the surface covered by II heavy pail
of darkness which settled over the
entrance OF the bay with the setting
of telltale half-moon. Once inside,
the visitor threw caution aside and
began shrickinG his siren. signaling Il
pilot, and at the same time attracting
the attention of the tug Thomas +.
rimmins. which had bccn waiting in
the lower bay for nearly two weeks to
greet the Deutschland and convoy her
into port.
WILL BE RECEIVED TODAY
WITH FORMAL CEREMONIES
Three hours later. at 4:l5 o'clock this
morning. the big submarine started up
the bay, with the German merchant
flag flying, under her own power, pilot.
cd by Captain Frederick u. Cooke, of
the Virginia Pilots Association. and
conveyed by tho Timmins. She was
hour, and could have dockcd in Balti-
more tonight. but arrangements had
been made for receiving her with
formal ceremonies tomorrow, and her
captain was ordered to wait in the
lower harbor.
Flo and his crew remained aboard
their craft.
Regarding his vessel as a merchant
man. subject to no unusual restric-
tions. the skipper. whose name is said
to be Captain Kairig. went up the
Chesapeake Bay without waiting to
notify local custom and quarantine
authorities of his presence. He was
five hours away before Norman Ham
ilton. collector OF Norfolk Newport
News. heard the news, and started on
his trail aboard the coast guard cutter
onondaSa. At last reports tonight
inc cutter had not approached the sub
marine, and it is understood that she
merely was ordered out TO keep the
strange craft under surveillance. as "a
neutrality precaution. Quarantine and
port regulations will be complied with
when the vessel moves up TO her dock
tomorrow.
FEW DETAILS KNOWN ABOUT
EPOCH-MAI<ING CRUISE
Little was known here tonight
about what happened during tho epoch
making cruise across the ocean. which
In n small measure at least breaks the
blockade on German tv,tNc with the
rest of the wrod. Noucf OF The sub.
marines crew had landed, and the
agents OF her owners had received only
meagcr- reports. Such information as
was available came Indirectly from
the pilot and from Cabtan Hans II.
iiinsch. OF the North German Lloyd
liner Neckar, laid up hcre since the
beginning of the war kaptain uinsch
boarded the Deutschlknd from tn.
Timmns, and made thJ trip up tho bay
with her.
According To tho alsounts rcachinu
here, the underwaterS liners s,ner.
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