The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-11-20
Cruiser Koenigsburg Slowly,
as Though Broken in Spirit,
Falls in Behind Flagship.
SKIRTS MINE FIELD S
Guns Covered With Canvas
and All Evidence of War and
Death Hidden from View.
Flies White Flag.

official dispatch from Stockholm
says the Swedish government will
mot deliver the FIVE German sub
marines fnterned in swedish ports
unless both groups Of belliEerents
wish II. 1t Ind been Understood
that the five U-boats would be
turned over to the allies by sweden
as part Of the German submarine
feet whose surrender In its en-
tirety in stipulated for In the
armistice.
sixteen Half Pints Taken.
Sixteen half pints of whiskey were
confiscated in raid on train No. 83
a, the Byrd-street station yesterday
afternoon by Officers Frayser and
Bea,tie of the prohibition department.
No arrests were made. The whiskey
was carried to the Second police sta
| ton.
| London, Nov. 19.-Standing six
abreast at thesr high sea rendezvous,
| six light cruisers of the British navy,
accompanied by ten destroyers. were
compelled to- wait for many hours
while the cruiser Koenigsberg, carry
| ing German naval plenipotentiaries.
felt her way through former Hun mine
fields.
The great ships, enveloped by q
heavy gray fog. doomed dimly as they
waited, from time to time picking up
wireless messages from the German
envoy ship. telling OF her decays, ono
Fcaused by her skirting a former Ger
man-laid mine field. with its floating
bombs of death, that has already been
swept clean by the British.
Late Friday. hours after the sched-
uled time of meeting. when every
sailor in Admiral Beatty's escort was
growing impatient. the German light
cruiser, carrying Rear Admiral Meu-
rer. was sighted. Every glass was con-
tcentrated upon her. the first German
ship to know immunity or the North
sea for four years. as she slowly APP
preached, with hardly a ripple from
her bow as 1t pushed through the wa
ter.
| A white flag blew out stiff. plain "a
fbe seen, between the flag Of Rear Ad-
nfirai Meurer and the imperial German
ensign. The flagship Cardiffs search
light fiuttered signal to her. the Koe-
nigsberg flashed an acknowledgment
Slowly. listlessly. as though broken in
spirit. the German ship. with guns
Lowered with canvas, and all evidence
tef war and death hidden from view
fell into the rear of Admiral Beatty
flagship while the British cruisers
swiftly encircAed her.
| There was sudden pause as the
wireless OF the Koenigsberg spoke. The
, Britishers picked it up. 1t was a mes
sage to a German land office that she
had been met and taken in charge
, silence followed then. except for the
noise of the increasing speed forward
| of the victors and the vanqushed, led
| by the flagship Cardiff.
| Speed was reduced to ten knots for
entrance through the gates of the
boom at 6 p. NJ The Koenigsberg
was ushered to her berth off Inchkeith
at the mouth of the Fir\h. The ships
/ of the escort anchored about her
Throughout the night riding and sterr
lights and lights on each beam blazed
cruised steadily around the German
envoy ship.
Aboard the destroyer Oak the Ger
man naval parliamentaries were taken
up the river through a maze of Brit
ish ships of war. all buzxing with life
to the great flagship. Queen Elizabeth
Rear Admiral Meurer and the four Of
ficers accompanying him walked
quickly down the quarterback OF the
flagship between lines of royal ma
rines. standing at attention with fixed
bayonets. Not a word, cry or a hiss
was uttered
| At o'clock Sunday morning, the
work OF her masters completed, the
lKoenigsberg, under escort, moved out
to the seas which the navy to which
she belonged made empty. and which
the ENJOYS she carried had signed to
make free,