Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-07-13

Baltimore, July 1O.-The daring
German seamen who brought the sub
marine merchantmen Deutschland
across the Atlantic, slept quietly to-
night aboard their vessel. which lay
moored to carefully screened pier
guarded by a strong squad of Balti-
more police. Capt Paul KoeniE. the
skipper, had delivered his papers to
the North German Lloyd Office enter
cd his vessel at the customs house as
IA commerce carrier and had presented
to a German embassy official a packet
of correspondence for Count Won Bern
storff.
Now the submarine is ready to dis
charge her mllion-dollar cargo of
dyestuffs and take on board for the
return trip to Germany metal and
rubber needed by the Emperor's armies
and navy. The return merchandise is
leaving port will depend largely upon
plans for eluding vigilant enemy
cruisers expected to be waiting out
side the entrance of Chesapeake bay
for the temperance of the vessel.
One of Captain Koenig's first acts
after he moved his ship up the harbor
announce that the Deutschland was
but one of fleet of mammoth sub
mersibles built or building for a rcgu-
lar transatlantic freight and mail
service. He said the next to come
would be the Bremen" and that she
might be looked for at some port
along the coast within eight weeks.
Anxious to establish promptly his
NJ, ftt1 !,
vestigation sought by diplomatic rep
resentatiVes of the allied powers. the
German captain submitted his craft to
thorough inspection by the surveyor
of the port and an agent of the de-
partment of justice. These officers, as
we'll as the customs inspectors and
, quarantine surgeons. agreed that there
was no sign of armament of any de-
scription on board. A formal report
to this effect was transmitted to the
treasury department at Washington
! 1t was stated on the authority Of the
, captain that the only arms on board
were four automatic pistols belonging
to the officers and a sportsmans rifle
for firing rockets.
After passing quarantine and once
safely alongside of his dock. Captain
Koenig called his crew ashore and posed
with them for moving picture and news
paper rhotographers. He laughed ano
/ chatted with the correspondents but re-
Trained from discussing his achievement
until after he had reported to the agents
Of his owners.
/ Later at the office of the North Ger.
man Lloyd, he issued a typewriter
statement telling of the coming of Other
boats like the Deutschland and assert
ing that his voyage had broken the Brit
ish control of the seas. At the sam.
which he described his 3, 500 mile cruis,
from HelOgoand to Chesapeake Bay
He denied reports that he had beer
chased off his course by enemy war
ships, declaring that so far as he knew
there was not an allied war craft in tn,
! Atlantic The captain asserted further
that his voyage had established the fac
that a submarine Of the type of tn,
! Deutschland could travel anywhere tina
, the ordinary vessel could go, 1900 miles
| II necessary. He had no fears, he stated
Of his ability to elude enemies thai
might be waiting for him off the Nir
gina capes when he starts his retrur
trip.
II will he able to submerge within
the three-mile limit and they canno
catch me after that" he said.
During nearly the entire voyage tt
America, said Captain Koenig, tn
deutschland travelled on the surface
Once she submerged for ten hour
and lay during that time on the bot