The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-10

syorfolk, Va, July 10.--Eluding the t8orth Sea Fleet of Great Britain and lal escaping from thirty hour chase by lBritish and French warships off the lvirRinia coast, the Deutschland, a powerfui super-submarine from Ger many passed through the Virginia lCapes at .1:45 o'clock Sunday morning | and, flying the German merchant flag, YI headed up Chesapeake Bay for Baltl- more. She arrived off Quarantine there at II o'clock last night. but did z not dock until this morning.s I # There are no torpedo tubes on the N Deutschland. She carries two 3-inch r,ins for defensive purposes only.
 HssWe bring message from the Elm { psror of Germany to the President of ! tlhe United States. = is one Of frlend- ship and good will;' was one of the first statements made by Capt. Kafrig z oG the Deutschland at the end or ,o00-mile voyage, in which his craft sbent 1 800 miles under water. q < Unaccompanied and unannounced T this mammoth under-sea craft came Edp to the capes and blew several 1:k1asts from an air whistle, denoting N that she wanted to comply with Amer lean maritime. laws and take on na- VI i've pilot for passage up the bay. / .I On board the Virginia pilot boat Re- sl lief Capt Fred Cooke was on watch, end when the strange craft, with no niRns of steam on board, came up to ai the capes he was taken by surprise. I However. he went out to sea, and fl,when near enough he shouted through megAphones Is " What craft is that?" r
 ' ssThis fs the German undsr-sea 4 liner Deutschland" a voice from the ?, Gubmarine answered .s. $ .-Ths devil it is!'' ntittered Captain sf Cooke, and then shouted again through mo magaphone: T will be aboard of \ 1ou tn q minute. Tug Waiting Eleven Days. ;gi { v Jumping into a yawl. Capt. Cooke vwas rowed to the strange visitor and riloted her through the Virginia kCapea. The nthe submarine lay to- be- T fwe3m old Point and Cape Henry until Inc tug hronas F. T1nmins' which sl had stood watch at Cape Henry for II V days, came up- M The tug ran mp signals that she had N orders tor the submarine. and both ~ craft came alQngside each other. 4 Capt. Hans5 F. Hinsch. one of the '/ crack captains of the North German 't Lloyd line, vtho had been. n.on board the ' rhnmins ever since the tug took up <i her vigil at Cape Henry, went aboard fl the Deutschland He carried several kenveIopes and these were handed to Capt- Kairigs commander of the sub Z, marine.
 \ Then the two Germans embraced \ each other on the deck of the subma- rine, while the American pilot. grasped N the wheel If the underwater craft ! waiting for the word to proceed. 1 Capts. Hinsch and Kairig held a M conference for about three hours, and A the former sent "a long telegram ashore } addressed to the German ambassador { teliln-. of the. arrival of the Deutsch- sl land and what she had on board j, After their conference. Capts. Hinsch T end Kair1g came out on sdeck' and made their way to the pilot house sl Capt Hinsch appeared to ibe in com I mand. Ha told Capt Cooke mat the Fl submarine was going to Baltimore SsThen you s1pant "a sMaryland pilot
 and not me" said Capt. Cooke. VIII startIe the World,
 The Virginia pilot steered the sub. marine to within calling distance of x TF11aryland pilot boat and summoned
 another skipper.
 f Tt was a few minutes before five 1 o'clock when the Deutschland. flying lthe merchant marine flag of Germany iptarted slowly up Chesapeake Bay, the ltus Timmins preceding. her by only 2 lew feet
 Capt. Hinsch praised the daring o1 2 Capt Kairig in the presence of all or
 board the submarine. He said: E You have accomplished wonder, < jfpl, remarkable feat in bringing this k4 Il 4ev> R<~, X 4,0O0 miles. You have done something < that will startle the world.
 There will be others to come, soms bigger and perhaps better than thil lcraft, but you were the first, and tt |you will go the honor and credit of ac icompIish1ng something that was nevel attempted before .I In statement afterward, Captaif IF5insch said:
 "Other submarines will be coming from Germany before long, and the, Twin sail from various ports as ire iquently perhaps as some of the pas isenger liners now sailing out of Amer. ' Ifca for Europe
 z "wonderfuI. wonderful that such | icrnft as this could come 50 far ant iencounter so many. dangers and .ye 2 tarrive safely.
 
 ling weeks ago. For nearly t12 days W, Ihaves stood watch at the Virginia
 CApee, getting word now and ther that she was in such and such posi- ton We were not working In ths dark. We did not fear at any time : that the Deutschland had been lost ' On the contrary, we knew she wal
 af5oat and moving toward us, but ws
 did not know exactly what danger. she was encountering"
 The size and contentS of tho lR fDeutsch1and's cargo are variously re. < ported. The size runs from 250 tom x all the way to 1000.
 One report says she carries mail and q cargo of 750 tons of costly chcmicals
 land dyestuffs. and is to carry back < homo . similar amount of nickel and crude rubber soreiy needed by the
 German army.
 The boat is consigned to A. Schu
 Eacher q Co.,. Baltimore, agef1ts o
 the North German Lloyd Line, ant her cargo to tho Eastern Forwardin, Company. a concern said to have beer
 organised within the past few week z especially to handle the business O
 Underwater liners. The latter com
 4any hasie9sfF and warehouse a
 Baltimore which are stored tn,
 eoods to be loaded on the Deutsch