Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-11
First Submarine
 One of Fleet
pEUTSc HLAND TO BE FOLLOW
 ED BY BREMEN IN 8 WEEKS.
STATUS IS DEFINITE
Only Arms on Board Were Four RevoIvers and a RifIe-Ready to Discharge, Take on New Cargo and Start Back to Germany.

Baltimore July 10.-The daring Ger man Seamen who brought the submar- inc merchantmen Deutschland across the Atlantic slept quietly tonight aboard their vessel, which lay moor ed to a carefully screened pier guard ed by a strong squad of Baltimore po- lice. Captain Paul Koenig, the skip per. had delivered his papers to the
 North German Lloyd office, entered his vessel at the custom house as a com nlerce carrier and had presented to a German embassy official packet of correspondence for Count vOn Bern storff.
 Only One of a Fleet.
 Now the submarine is ready to dis charge her million dollar cargo of dyeStuffS and take on board for the return trip to Germany metal and rub her needed by the eEnperor's armies and navy. The return merchandise is waiting on the dock and the time for leaving port will depend largely upon plans for eluding Vigilant enemy CruiS- CTS expected to be waiting outside the entrance of Chesapeake for the re- appearance of the vessel. One of Cap
 tain kOenig's first acts after he moved his ship up the harbOr from quaratine today was to announce that the Deutschland was but one of a fleet of mammoth SuomerSibles built for a, reg ular trans Atlantic mail service. He
 said the next to come would be the Bremen and that she might be look ed for some port along the coast with in eight weeks.
 Anxious to establish promptly his peaceful character and to fOrestau in- VeStigatiOn sought by diplomatic rep resentatives of the allied powers, the German captain submitted his craft to Q thorough inspection by the surveyor of the port and an agent of the de- partmenL of justice. These officers, as well as the customs inspectors and quarantine surgeons, agreed that there was no sign of armament of any des- CrfptiOn on board and that there was no doubt in their minds about the boat being entitled to the status of an ordinary merchantmen. Guy V. Steele, the surveyor, made a formal report to this effect to Port Collector Ryan, who transmitted it to the treasury depart ment at Washington.
 The only arms on board were four automatic pistols belonging to the of | fcers and a sOprtsman's rifle for fir i ing rockets.
 Encountered No Allied Ships. 1 At the office of the North German 1 Lloyd, Capt. Koenig issued type l written statement telling of the com | ing of other boats like the DeUtsCh- | land and asserting that his voyage | had broken the British control of the 1 seas. At the same time ne submitted 1 to an interview in which he described 1 hIS 3,6OU-mlIe cruise from HelgOland | to Chesapeake Bay. He denied re- ports that he had been chased off his course by enemy Warships, declaring | that so far as he knew there was not 1 an allied Warcraft in the Atlantic. The l captain asserted further that the voy- | age had established the fact that l submarine of the type of the DeutsCh- | land could travel anywhere that the 1 ordinary vessel could go, 13,000 miles. l if necessary. He had no fears, he l stated, of his ability to eIude enemies | that might be waiting for him off the 1 Virginia capes when he starts his re- 1 turn trip.
 T will be able to submerge within 1 the threemiIe limit and they cannot | catch me after that" he said.
 On Surface Almost All the Way.
 During nearly the entire voyage to America, said Captain Hoenig, the 1 Deutschland traveIed on the surface. 1 Once she submerged for ten hours
 and lay during that time on the bot
 tom of the English channel to escape | British destrOyers.