Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-07-14
GERMAN U-bOAT
ARRIVES IN i. s.
Brings Small Cargo of Chemicals
and Dyestuffs.
WAS CHASED BY WARSHlPS
No Passengers on Board Underwater
Craft-Breaks All Records for Sub
mersibIes-Beats Blockade
Has Crew of 90 Men.
WAS CHASED BY WARSHIPS

Baltimore, Md, July IL. - The
German merchant supersubmarine
Deutschland has arrived in Chesapeake
bay.
Long expected, ridiculed, fabulous as
the sea serpent or the Flying Dutch
man, she became a reality to the watch
ers off Cape Henry at exactly ~
Sunday and slowly made her way
through a network of inquisitive ships
and through the maZes of red tape OF
the quarantine and customs officials to
her dock at the pier of the Eastern
Forwarding company, Locust Point,
Baltimore.
She is the largest submarine af1oat.
The largest German war models are
less than 300 feet long. But this sub
marine of commerce is 315 feet long,
exactly one-third the length of the
largest merchant vessels afioat - the
Vaterland and Imperator.
The boat carries no passengers. Her
cargo consists of $50 tons of dyestuffs
and chemicals.
The diver also carries a message
from Emperor William to President
Wilson and a large amount of mail,
and is to carry back home similar
amount of nickel and crude rubber,
sorely needed by the German army.
She is commanded by Captain Kali
rig and has crew of % men. Both
captain and crew are drawn from the
German merchant fleet and not from
the navy. The craft is unarmed and
is being treated by the United States
like any other merchant ship.
1t is said that she submerged when
ever she saw any vessel, on the chance
that it might be a warship. The Eng
lish government was not among those
who regarded the transatlantic sub
merSible as a joke, and the report is
that the Deutschland was chased for
80 hours by English and French war
ships. She submerged and eluded them
by travelling out of her course 800
miles.
Because she was forced to make this
detOur she has the record for subma-
rine distance travel. The longest trip
previously made by any submarine was
the $500 miles from Kiel to CONSTANT
nople, made by the E-boat that sank
the British battleship Majestic. 1t is
said that the Deutschland travelled A.
$50 miles, 1900 miles of this being I'M
der water. The trip was made in 16
days.
She ran through the North sea sub
merged practically all the time. She
was forced to submerge again for a
time when she got twO-thirds of the
way across, when she sighted a Dutch
merchant vessel in her path. And,
some 600 miles off the Virginia coast,
she was frightened out to sea again for
a distance of some 200 miles by enemy
warShips. But on her return she was
able to come to the surface hundred
miles from land and was not forced to
submerge again.
The Deutschland was met off Cape
Henry by the tug Thomas T. TimmOns
of the Eastern Forwarding company,
which had been waiting at the capes for
the past IL days. And couple of days
intendent of the Ocean Transportation
company, as the new merchant marine
line is called, went on board the Tim
mons. He directed the plotting of the
ship.
eve have proved" he told members
of the Virginia Pilots association,
that the English blockade amounts
to nothing. There will be more sub
marines from Germany. They will be
making regular trips just like the big
liners from England in a few weeks.
This boat is in excellent condition.
She had only two mishaps and these
delayed her but slightly. She had
trouble with her motors and her I'M
derwater lights, but she carried extra
supplies and the trouble was quickly
repaired.
Washington July 1.-THE U-boat
liner which passed through the Vir
ginia capes will be treated by the
United States government as a mer-
chant ship. The vessel will be permit
ted to discharge her cargo, to take on
cargo for the return voyage, and
sufficient gasoline and other stores to
enable her to reach home. This pro-
gram of the state department is based
upon official reports that the boat is
not armed with torpedoes.