The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-10
U-B0AT FREIGHT
VESSEL CROSSES
ATLANTIC OCEAN
Runs British Blockade, Com
pIetes 4,OOO-Mile Trip.
Makes New Epoch in World
Maritime Commerce.
DOCKS At BALTIMORE TODAY
Carried Valuable Chemical Car
go, 500 to 1000 Tons.
Whole Fleet of New Type Now
Ready, Is Report.
Makes New Epoch in World
Maritime Commerce.
DOCKS AT BALTIMORE TODAY
Carried Valuable Chemical Car
go, 500 to 1000 Tons.
RY CARL D. GROAT.

Baltimore. Md, July 10.-"Deutsch-
land" giant cargo laden super-U-ooat'
ended her daredevil journey from
Germany here early this morning
Sliding her snout through the grizzly
night up the Patapsco river behind
putting tug. she put into quarantine
after journeying safely through
Chesapeake bay and docked at the
specially prepared and guarded dock
of the Commercial Shipping concern
that ostensiblv sponsored the voyage.
When customs men and doctors
scrambled aboard the submarine they
wrote finis to the first chapter OF one
of the biggest and most dramatic ma
rIne CANDLES of all time
II was the first-time -in-history trip
of the worlds largest submarine came
in laden with a cargo Tor Wnlcn
America has been clamorlng many
months Today her hackers TAXED oI
a regular line of ocean-golng caISo
submarines between the Fatherlano
and America.
CAPT. Paul Koenig. German com
nander. was on deck when the strange
craft dropped anchor off quarantine;
He bore the air of a man VINO reanzeo
his venture was epochal.
Not TaII1ative Bunch
AS she moved up the llNCA ~ 9oe-h
antine, putting a little and spreading
an otly smoke behind, the Deutschland
was spoken by newspaper men 1t
was a cold reception. Only monosyl-
tables and terse replies were fortn-
coming
There had been no trouble, they
were told, no allied ships sighted nor
any chasing by warships.
Heligoland was named as the point
of departure and June % the date of
leaving.
She was a strange sight, silhouetted
by searchlights against the drizzling
dark.
Small craft piled near at hand. Fe-
verish newspapermen sought the story
of the remarkable journey past lurk-
ing allied ships across the Atlantic
the running of a blockade that Eng
land had claimed could not be pierced.
Not until hours after she arrived at
quarantine did American officials take
any action. Then Customs Collector
Ryan. with doctors and other officials
boarded the Deutschland. examined
her crew of twenty-nine, viewed her
manifest and talked a time with the
blue-coated, white-capped submarine
ers.
Shed Tears of Joy.
When the examination was COM
plete, the Deutschland, now flanked by
scows and tugs. continued on her way
to the gun-protected wharf of her con-
signee, the Eastern Forwarding COM
pany. Henry G. Hilken, senior mem
Der of the A. Schumacher & Company,
interested in the North German
Lloyd line and the forwarding con-
cern, boarded with his son, Paul G.
Hilken, Swedish vice consul, and
member of the North German Lloyd
agency. Tears were in the eyes of the
men as they embraced the stolid Cap
tain Koenig.
'Ach, Gott, es ist schoen ?'' said the
elder-one of the dreamers, who
dreamed the Ocean Rhederei, c. NJ.
b. H, or Ocean Navigation Company,
Limited. and its progeny. tho undersea
cargo carrier.
They then went into secret session.
They must consider what would be
the reception and the procedure with
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