The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-11-01
SubSea Liner Reaches u. S.
Port on Second Trip.
DELAYED BY A COLLISION
Submarine Brings Fortune in
Cargo of Drugs and Dyes.
Joy at New London Dock Sur.
wives Fate of the Bremen.

New London, Conn.,, Nv. l.-Plung-
ing and diving-at times in the teeth
of a storm-the German merchant
submarine Deutschland p1ada her sec
ond trip to the United States. thru
veritable lane of allied warships
The Deutschland was safely docked
at her screened pier here this after
noon. She came out of the darkness
and the waves during the early morn
ing hours. Nosing her way up the
sound she was quickly warped in
alongside her mother ship the
Willehad, and with her sailors at lib
erty some of the details Ct her second
remarkable voyage were learned.
At one time The sub-sca freigrter
was submerged for ten hours in mid
ocean. The Deutschland was forced to
spend this time beneath the waves ow-
ing to the presence of hostile war craft
lurking nearby, one of the crew de-
clared. Captain Koenig, the smiling
commander. who brought the Deutsch-
land on her first voyage was again in
command, but up to an early hour this
afternoon had been so bus.ly engaged
with officials of the company operat-
| ing the merchant submarine he had
not been able TO tell his story of the
second trip.
Saw Lots of Enemy '-arship.
1--WE saw lots of hostile Ships" said
one of the crew. He was big six
foot German. Smiling good naturedly
| he told in German snatches of the
! story of the trip which again brought
the Deutschland over and under the
| ocean.
There were many more enemy war
ships out than we saw on the first
voyage" he went on. There seemed
| to be q regular lane of cruisers and
ships of other types. do not know
| how much of the trip was made un-
| der water, but the longest continuous
period we were submerged was ten
hours. This was somewhere in about
mid-ocean. Hostile ships were sighted
and we were forced to drop out of
sight.
| But, it's about the same old story
now. Not much difference between
this trip and the first one except the
enemy ships,'' the sailor concluded.
! The Bremen is definitely known to
be lost. This was confirmed from
members of the Deutschland's crew.
Buffeted by Gales.
| New London, Conn, Nov. 1.-Safe
from Atlantic perils after buffeting in
rough October gales, the German sub
marine freighter Deutschland docked
here early today on her second Ameri-
can voyage. Twenty-one days out
| from Bremen, she hummed thru the
Long Island Sound outer harbor short
| iy after midnight, with her crew of
twenty-five, happy and healthy and
her valued cargo of rare medicines
and dyes intact.
A Scott tug, bearing fat, oily Cap
tain Hinsch of the Deutsche Ocean
Rhederei Deutschland owners, shout
| ed "Willkommen'' to his friend, Cap
tain Koenig, the smiling skipper from
Thuringia. The tug cast her line
and she chugged triumphantly into
the inner harbor over the course
which British frigates followed years
since.
Passes Quarantine Quickly.
Health and customs officers, noti-
f:-d only a brief time before her ar
rival, waived United States regula-
tions on the word of Captain Koenig
THAT the crew was healthy, and allowed
her TO pass quarantine without waiting
for dawn Up past sleepy Groton, op
posite New London, passing silent
freight ships, the Deutschland swept
Imajestically into the state pier Whlcn
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