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GERMAN SUBMARINE BRINGS CARGO UNDER
OCEAN BLOW AT BRITISH BLOCKADE
Washington, July 10, The Ger
man super-submersible Deutschland
Is not a warship. She is not even an
armed merchantman. She has no
guns or armament of any kind
aboard her.
This was report made to treasury
department today by customs offi
cials who boarded submarine at Bal
timore. State department immedi
ately was Informed of ship's status
by Sejc'y McAdoo. Report, while
preliminary, is considered definitely
to establish the Deutschland's status.
Baltimore, July 10. "Deutsch
land," giant cargo-laden super-U-boat,
ended her journey from Ger
many early today. Sliding up the
Patapsco river behind a tug, she
docked at the specially prepared and
guarded dock of the Commercial
Shipping Concern that ostensibly
sponsored her voyage.
She came in laden with a cargo
of dyestuff, for which America has
been clamoring many months. To
day her backers talked of a regular
line of ocean-going cargo subma
rines between the Fatherland and
America.
Newspapermen received a cold re
ception from Capt. Paul Koenig of
the Deutschland. Only monosylla
bles and terse replies were forthcom
ing. There had been no trouble, they
were told, no allied ships sighted, nor
any ichasln by warships.
Heligoland was named as the point
of departure, and June 23 as the date
of leaving. '
Not until hours after the Deutsch
land arrived in quarantine did Amer
ican officials take any action. Then
Customs Collector Ryan, with doc
tors and other officials, 'boarded the
submarine, examined her crew of 29,
viewed her manifest and talked with
her blue-coated, white-capped sub
jyhen the examination was over
and the Deutschland docked, Henry
G. Hilken, senior member of A.
Schumaker & Co., interested in the
North German Lloyd lines and other
forwarding concerns, boarded her
with his, son, Paul G. Hilken, Swed
ish vice consul and member of the
North German Lloyd Agency. Tears
were in in the men's eyes as they em
braced the stolid Capt. Koenig.
"Ach, Gott, es ist schoen," said the
elder, one of the dreamers who
dreamed the Ozeau Rhederei G. RL,
B. H. or Ocean Navigation Co., Ltd.,
and its progeny, the undersea cargo
carrier.
Then they went into secret ses-
sion.
Down the stream lay a British
merchantship with the Union Jack
streaming from her masts. The men
aboard the submarine smiled a hard
smile. They had fooled and flaunted
England.
Work 'of discharging the dyestuff
and other merchandise, amounting
to from 500 to 1,000 tons, started
early. The dyestuffs are being piled
up in a warehouse filled with nickel
and supplies which the Deutschland
plans to take back to the Fatherland
if she can again scoff at allied
patrols and skirt the cruisers that;
seek her.
Backers of the Deutschland frank
ly anticipate trouble temporarily
wjth the American officials, but they
believe that by tomorrow matters,
will be straightened out and that the
U. S. would decide to harbor the ves
sel as any peaceful merchantman
Certainly, they said, she was unarm
ed, and a merchantman with a legiti
mate cargo.
In formal statement today Capt
Paul Koenig declared vessel will be
followed soon by several others. First
of these, he said, will be "Bremen."
Out of the depths, Capt. Koenig
brought today the word of mouth,
story of the first successful crossing
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