Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1916 — Deutschalnd Passes Three Mile Limit and Prepares to Submerge. [ARTICLE]

Deutschalnd Passes Three Mile Limit and Prepares to Submerge.

The German submarine merchantman Deutschland passed quietly out of the Virginia Capes at 8:30 Wednesday night on her homeward voyage, apparently unobserved , by the allied warship patrol waiting outside the three mile limit. She was accompanied to the Capes only by the tug Thomas F. Timmins, which had convoyed her down the bay from Baltimore, and by a newspaper dispatch boat.

Her departure to sea followed an eighteen mile dash through the lower Chesapeake bay. After proceeding slowly most of the way down she increased her power at 6:30 and reached the capes just avter dusk. Whether she submerged oefore reaching the three mile limit is unknown. The two accompanying boats only know that she disappeared uriharmed and that to all appearances she had a clear 1 field ahead to a point where she could completely submerge in safety. Half air-hour after the last light of the Deutschland nad disappeared, the Timmins, seemingly satisfied with her work, turned hack and headed up Chesapeake bay in the direction of Baltimore. For several hours before the dash the Deutschland lay in a secluded spot near x Tangier Island, about fifty miles above Cape Henry.