Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-07-21


many of Shakespeare's plays. Shake
speare, you know. Is better known In
Germany than In England. We had
Mark Twain's 'Innocents Abroad some
of Jacobs stories and many Of Dick
ems novels"
How about Jules verne's Twenty
Thousand Leagues Under the Scar"
"Oh. that book Is too full of Inn
agination for u.s." replied the sturdy
little sailorman with laugh.
II suppose you felt you were living
in fiction?" asked someone.
mo, 1t was pretty human" was the
remarkable answer. 1--WE did not have
much time for speculation. We were
divided in four-hour watch parties, and
that kept us busy"
Kept to Course.
Captain Koenig said he had kept ON
the course previously decided upon
without deviation. Asked IL the
Deutschland had made detour of 800
miles to avoid enemy warships, as he.
ported, he replied:
mo. indeed. You see 1t was much
simpler to submerge than to dodge
about. But our task was rendered much
more simple by the fact that we were
not once sighted by an enemy ship"
Captain Koenig spent eight years
In the North German Lloyd's Asiatic
service. He was once first officer Of
the Eitel Friedrich, now boxed up In
NRCnDrf Naxyc Ia
five years ago, and just before the
war was given command of the pleas
ure ship Scheswig, which he says was
q fine thing for his constitution, as 1t
took him to the Mediterranean in win
ter and to Norway in summer.
For many years he has been a cit
lien Of Bremen, where his wife, his
fourteen-year-old son and his little
"maedeI" of six are at the present mo-
ment celebrating his success.
Surprised at Reception.
The reception given the Deutsch-
land by Americans came to Captain
Koenig and his crew as q complete
surprise. Eager as they had been to
reach America, great as was the en-
thusiasm when Cape Henry was sight
ed-there was not man on board who
did not feel anxiety over the reception
they might be given when they got
here. And the captain was the most
anxious Of all. He admits 1t with the
perfect frankness which Is one Of his
characteristics.
If the reception had been different.
declares Captain Koenig, he was quite
prepared to swing his boat around and
take her back to Germany. He could
have done 1t, he said, without taking
on any supplies, whether of food, wa
ter, oil or anything else. The machin-
cry would not have needed overhaul
ing.
"a run of 1000 miles would give US
no trouble at ALL" he said. "Our ac-
ton radius Is 1900. We have more
than enough oil on board for return
trip. And as for water, we shall throw
overheard ten tons of fresh water
which Is still In our tanks. The food
question is inst as simple. On board
we live Amea' r style-that is to say,
on timed tn IS. ,.kEen our bread is
timed. In the Can it is good for six
months, at least. OF course, 1t must
be eaten as soon as the can is opened"
Boat a Mass of Machiner&
AS described by DR.. John c. Travers.
assistant U. s. health officer, who was
taken through the boat by Captain
Koenig, the Deutschland's interior APP
pears to be mainly a mass of machin-
cry. She has but one deck below and
a seventeen-foot depth of hold for her
cargo. DIR. Travers descended through
the forward hatch, where he found
the crews quarters, hunks on either
side of a narrow passageway leading
to compartments occupied by the cap
tain and his two officers. The cap
tain's room is scarcely six feet square
and barely high enough for a man
to stand.
1t is furnished all in metal, with
the exception of small oak desk.
Directly beneath the officers quarters
is the dynamo, which stores electrical
energy to drive the vessel when sub
merged.
Next DR.. Travers was taken into
the officers messroom, scarcely larger
than the staterooms, with a galley
built with all the economy of space
of Pullman dlning-car kitchen. Aft
the messroom, about one-third the
ships length from her stern, Is the
submerglng machinery and two peris-
copes.
Aft of the submerging machinery
were the submarines two powerful
Diesel Oil engines which propel her
on the surface.
Calls II Amazing Sight
II never saw such mass Of ma
chinery in my life," said DIR. Travers.
1T was an amazing sight and I doubt
If it would mean much except to the