The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-07-11

/, have received the whole American
( attitude towards us means as mucn
60 our happiness a. our actual ar,
rival"
Was Prepared To Turn Back
/ II the reception had been different,
declares Captain Koenig. he was quite
prepared 30 swing his bost around and
take her back TO Germany. He could
/ have done IT, without ~sklng on any
supplies, whether OF food, water. oil.
or anything else. The machinery
would not have needed overhauiing
"A run Of 5000 miles would give
us no trouble n alt" he said "Our
actual radius is $4,000. We have more
i than enough oil on board for n return
"trip. And as for water we shall have
! overheard ten tons Of fresh water
which Is still In our tanks On board
/ we live American style-that is to say.
| on timed things Even our bread is
timed. In tho can, IL il good for sly
months at least OF course II must he
eaten &c soon as the can Ia opened"
asked him whether II was war
bread that he and his men were cat
Ing He objected to the term. but adj
United that some OF the bread they
had on board was black and that
some was gray and that none was
'''NN' NaF pit lnAf ne is patriotic
ny assuring ma that nc likes tho black
and the grey very much And then
ne proved that ne Is Humankind
huma ne---hy ordering n goodlv s1rpplv
of white bread 10 be sent down 10
me boat at once. Not only for the Of
hcers but for the whole crow.
They would appreciate Il much
more. I said. III you would let them
set their white bread themselves in
the city; let them leave the boat and
forget It for a while"
oh, he replied, 'it is nice enough
on board. the quarters are roomy. The
men have herths just as on any other
vessel, and besides. sleeping on board
has one great advantage over siAen.
ing ashore"
What is that"
Free From Mosquitoes.
we are not bothered by mosouf-
toes The smell Of the oil keeps them
all away"
There was great celebration ~
the Deutschland night before last
when she reached land and left her
devoted friend Tmmons off Cane
Henry. I don't know 10 what extern.
the crew celebrated. May he II was
only to the extent OF turning on the
photograph In the "Mannechsfts
Raun," and singing die wacht Am
Rhein." And Deutschland uber
Allies" In tone with the invisible or
che$tra, Maybe II was beer The first
omcer told me that they had mo
alcohol on board"
Discussing his return trip. CAPTAIN
koeniE declared that he could notify
the British and French cruisers off the
Capes as to the exact time of my de-
parture and the Deutschland could
escape them"
IT the British DO not violate in
ternationsl law by coming within the
three-mile limit we shall clip by them
without being seen" ne added.
Positive Was Not Sighted.
This was our experience on the
voyage over. Although we sighted
scores OF war and merchant ships,
am positive we were not seen by
single vessel from the moment we
left Heligoiand on June % until we
arrived off Norfolk yesterday morning.
often we passed very close to Brit
ish ana French vessels--so close, in
deed. that we could detect the sound
OF their propeiiers through our micro
phones. We had two of these ittle
instruments They are underwater
telephones"
Taking up the story Of the voyage,
tho captain continued:
The Deutschland was comnIeted
some months ago was chosen TO
command her. l suppose, because I 4
had been captain OF the North German
Lloyd liners the Princess Irene and the
schleswlg and had also sailed into
Baltimore with the Rhein and tho
Neckar.
I know little about submarines; in
deed, this was my first long cruise in
one, But ] was given an opportunity
to make trial trips In the Baltic and
elsewhere The company assembled a
crew OF twenty men. Most Of them
are married They range in age from
twenty-one up TO forty. My first off,
Ger is Mr.. Kraphl; my second ofricer.
Eyring, and Klees Ia chief enetneer.
klees is the most important man of
all
We left Bremerhaven at noon june
~ In our cargo we had about 81 900,
, coo worth of dyesturs
Mail Is Delivered
"Also' carried 900 tons of iron for
ballast In addition we=wern gtxsu
three packages Of mail from the for
eiRn office to he delivered to Ambas-
sador Won BernstorT This turned
over this afternoon to Herr Won Nam
imhausen. counsellor to the German
embassy
/ do not believe the packages contain
any message from the Emperor to
President Wilson
Well We went 10 Helieoland from
bremen. The trip consumed only few
hours and we kept on the surface
all the way. No. the British blockade
is not hair az tight as they would have
YOU believe
Here We delayed for nine DAYS This
was for the purpose of properly dispos-
ms OF our cargo and ballast and the
reception Of food and fuel. We took
on $50 tons OF oil We have ninety
fve tons left-enough TO take US home
again.
we had no serious accident. no trou-
BILE with our engines OF submerEing
apparatus, and had more than double
the amount of fuel needed.
One sailor sunburned.
Only one case Of sickness OF any
sort developed on the trip. One Of the
sailors was badly sunburned one day
We left Heligoland on the 23rd OF
June and headed across the North sen
for the Channel Almost all the time
we travelled at a steady speed of thir-
teen or fourteen knots on the surface
OF the