Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-07-11

There will he more here soon and we
are going back for another cargo. We
are going 10 have a regular line
IL was to port officials that the captain
talked, as his vessel was preparing to-
move up to dock He spoke freely tC|
the officers and laughed over his feat. To
newspaper men shouting questions over
the ships side he was not commune
cative explaining that a formal state
ment would be issued later by the repre-
sentatives OF his owners.
All during the night a considerable
part of the Deutschland's crew had been
astir and a small searchlight played al
most constantly upon newspaper yacht
anchored near by. The tug Thomas f.
Timmins, conveying the submarine, also
kept the yacht under close surveillance.
shortly after 4 o'clock when daylight
was beginning 10 show family through
heavy low-lying clouds and a steady
drizzling rain boat with health and
customs officials aboard put out from
the quarantine station and went along
side the submarine. To the municipal
health officer. Or. Thomas L. Richard
son. the skipper presented his bill ~
health. just issued TO him by William
Thomas Fee, United States consul at
Bremen, on June Il.
ENGAGED IN FREIGHT TRADE.
The document describes the Deutsch-
land as a vessel engaged in the freight
trade between Bremen and Boston, or
other eastern Atlantic ports" 1t records
her gross tonnage as 791, says she Is
Newly built" has a cago of dyestuhs
in good condition. and "a wholesome sup
ply of water from the Bremen water
works"
One thing the boarding officers noted
particularly-there were no torpedo
tubes or guns of any description Nisi-
BILE. They had been told that she mount
ed two small caliber rifles for defense,
but came ashore convinced that the Wis
itOr was wholly unarmed.
Ii was learned that the boat left Bre-
men with her load of about $50 tons of
valuable dyestuffs. At Helgoland she
waited nine days, leaving there June ,"
to plough deep beneath the surface Of
the North sea to escape the watchful
eyes OF the allied blockaders. Captain
KONG intimated that the purpose Of his
long delay at Helgoland was to deceive
the enemy. we stopped there for very
good reasons" the captain explained with
a broad smile.
This accounted for the belief in the
United States that the vessel was
week overdue. a misrepresentation that
caused German embassy officials to fer
that she had run into allied warships
or fallen victim to an Atlantic storm.
STRAIGHT ACROSS OCEAN.
once outside the blockading lines and
into the Atlantic, according to the cap
tain's story, he headed straight across
and only deviated from his course once
when he saw what he took to be enc,
my craft.
Most of the time he sped along on the
surface making around fourteen knots
an hour with his powerful twin Dtezel
oil engines. Submerged he could &c
at the rate of 71-2 knots
Approaching the capes late Saturday
Captain KONG found his path appar-
emily clear. He laid-to with his decks
awash however. waiting until darkness
fell before nearing the coast. When the
bright half moon went down. shortly
after midnight. he put on all speed and
shot between the Virginia capes, TO be
greeted by the tug Timmins.
on board the submarine are the cap
tain, first and second officers and twen-
ty-six men, all wearing the regulation
uniform of the German mercantile ma
rne, with the North German Lloyd in
sigma upon their caps. The skipper is
a trim, slightly built man of medium
height, around forty. Two of his sea-
men are grizzled old tars. but the others
are youth apparently ranging from IS
/ 10 %.
When the vessel was released from
quarantine she moved up the river 20
/ the pier of the Eastern Forwarding COM
pauy. six miles away TO a carefully
I guarded waiting berth. On the way up
she passed a dozen merchantmen lying
at anchor. The first. a big Norwegian
/ freighter, dipped her flag and he, whole
ships company lined against the rail
raised three rousing cheers, which were
answered with a will. With another
/ Norwegian and two Dutch ships the sub
| marine exchanged formal salutes. She
I moved close by a number of British
\ tramps in silence. observed with eager
\ interest by the English crews.