The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-07-20

we Hau library of forty vol
umes. A good many of our hook,
were by English authors. We carried
many OF Shakespeare's plays. Shake
speare, you know, is better known i,
germany than in England. We haf
marx Iwain's 1nnocents Abroad som,
OF Jacobs stories and many of Dick
ems novels"
~, How about Jules Verne's Invent,
thousand Leagues Under the Sea ?"
On, that book is too full of i'm
aglnauon for u.s." replied the sturdy
little sa1!Orman with q laugh.
suppose you felt you were LIVING
In hction?" asked someone.
NO. 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 kent ON
the course previously decided upon
without deviation. Asked If the
Deutschland had made detour of 800
miles to avoid enemy warships, as he
ported, he replied:
mo. indeed. You see it 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 Eltel Friedrich, now boxed up in
Newport News. He became q captain
I'VE years ago, and just before the
war was given command of the pleas.
ure ship Scheswig, which he says was
fine thing for his constitution. as it
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
"maedel" 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 a complete
surprise. Eager as they had been to
reach America, great as was the en-
thusiasm when Cape Henry was sight
was not a 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 it 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
on any supplies, whether Of food, wa
ter, Oil or anything else. The machin-
cry would not have needed overhaul
ing.
"a run of 5000 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 just as simple. On board
We live American style-that is to say,
IN timed things. Even our bread is
timed. In the can it is good for six
months, at least. OF course, it must
De eaten as soon as the can is opened"
Boat a Mass Of Machinery.
AS described by DR.. John c. Travers.
assistant q. S. health officer, who was
aiken through the boat by Captain
loenig. the Deutschland's interior APP
)ears to be mainly q mass OF machln- |
.ry. She has but one deck below and
seventeen-foot depth of hold for her |
argo. DR.. Travers descended through
he forward hatch, where he found
he crews quarters, hunks on either
ide Of a narrow passageway leading
O compartments occupied by the cap
ain and his two officers. The cap
aims room Is scarcely six feet square
nd barely high enough for a man
o stand.
It is furnished all in metal, with
he exception of a small oak desk.
directly beneath the officers quarters
) the dynamo, which stores electrical
nergv to drive the vessel when sub
1erged.
Next DR.. Travers was taken into
he officers messroom, scarcely larger
han the starerooms, with a galley
uilt with all the economy of space
E Pullman dining-car kitchen. AIT
ne messroom, about one-third the
hips length from her stern, is the
machinery and two per1s-
opes.
Aft of the submerging machinery
ere the submarines two powerful
iesel oil engines which propel her
4 the surface.
Calls 1t Amazing Sight.
81 never saw such mass OF ma
linery in my life," said DIR. Travers
It was an amazing sight and doubt