Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1916 — Status of German Submarine Found to Be All Right. [ARTICLE]

Status of German Submarine Found to Be All Right.

The daring German submarine seaman who brought the submarine merchantman Deutschland across the Atlantic, slept quietly Monday aboard their vessel, which lay moored to a carefully screened pier guarded 'by a strong squad of police. Captain Koenig, the skipper, had delivered his papers to the North German Lloyd office, entered his vessel at the customs house as a commerce carrier and had presented to a German embassy official a packet of correspondence for Count von Bemstorff. Now the vessel is ready to discharge her million dollar cargo of dyestuff and take on board for the return trip to Germany, metal and rubber needed by the army and navy. The return merchandise is waiting on the dock and the time for leaving port will largely depend on plans for eluding vigilant enemy cruisers waiting outside of the entrance of Chesapeake bay for the reappearance of the vessel. One of Captain Koenig’s first acts after he moved his ship up the harbor from quarantine announced that the Deutschland was but one of several mammoth submarines built or building for the regular trans-Atlantic freight and mail service. He stated that the next to come would ,be the “Bremen,” and that she might be looked for at some port along the coast in the next eight weeks. The German captain, anxious to establish promptly the peaceful character and to forestall investigations sought by diplomatic representatives of the allied powers, submitted his craft to a thorough inspection by the surveyor of the part and an agent of the department of justice. The officers reported shat they found the status of the submarine the same as any other merchantman.