The daily progressive-miner., 1916-04-20
did not entertain . fear.

did not entertain fear.
 They backed half dozen of their periscoped mines out of the hold and placed then overheard. The British Admiralty, you know. has issued orders to all British ships to run down any German submarine providing the German submarine doesn't get the Britisher first.
 We'll. all of that mine that we could see as they planted her in the water was the fake periscope. On thelface of things there was nothing to indicate that it was anything but q submarine, They told me that they had planted dozen or so around Ireland. am still wondering whether any mis- guided British steamer or warship ran down one of those periscopes. If they ,iid-good night
 One of the finest men I have ever met was captain of the Pen Wing, Count Dohna- -Schloiein. The cruise of the Pen Wing, or Moewe. as you knew her. speaks for his daring and ability, But he was very humane. very white and very kind to us neutrals. They fed us well and gave us comfortable quar- ters.
 The day they planted the mines off the Lizard I got a jolt. Our friend Johannsen was on the bridge with the captain. Of course. I don't know what he said. But there was Johannsen-su supposedly a neu- tral.
 That night the attitude of the crew changed. A guard with fixed bayOnets took us in charge. We were told that the Pen Wing was going to go northward and back to Wilhemshaven. I heard it like man getting a death sentence. Johnson, my mate, and 1 asked that We De given q small boat and q few days rations and set adrift. We figured that one of the British cruisers would sight us. We knew that if they did they would blow us out Of the water. We didn't like the idea of being drowned in a lower hold.
 They laughed at Johnson and me. But they took US to the cap tain- He laughed, too. He de- clared that We would be in real danger if Set adrift and in no dan ger if We did exactly what We were told.
 Well, I bid lingering goodbye to the sky and went below. We were kept below until We reached Wilhemshaven. They kept us below decks.
 Whether she went north of Ice land or got in between Iceland and the Shetlands, God knows. After ward asked them how they did it. They shrugged their shoulders. grinned and replied:
 My friend, we ran in while they were asleep"
 The marvellous part of this is that the Pen Wings boilers were in crusted and her machinery needed overhauling She was in no shape for speed. If she was capable of 15 knots at her best I'm no sailor.
 They marched us through Will helmshaven to a naval detention camp. Capt Count Dahna Schlodien bade us very courteous adieu and told Us Americans to give his re- gards to cur country. I heard that he set several of the British civil ian prisoners ashore and gave each four or five quid to pay their pass age home.
 There in the detention camp I learned more about the Pen Wing. { She had never been registered in Lloyd's. Her sister ship had not been sent out. She had returned to Wilhernshaven within two and one-haf months after she left. She simply sailed right past the British l ships in going out. She wasn't out 1 O. Wilhemshaven twentv-ons days i before she captured the Appam and sent her to Norfolk.