Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1916 — Koenig Tells How He Dodged Allies With $10,000,000 Cargo. [ARTICLE]

Koenig Tells How He Dodged Allies With $10,000,000 Cargo.

New London, Conn., Nov. L—“English blockade?” Captain Paul Koenig,, commander of the German under-sea merchant packet, Deutschland, lifted his voice to a note of slight impatience as he repeated the query. He turned his eyes upon the questioned. They are sharp little eyes, of a bluish gray color. “Well, it hasn't stopped us yet,” he said, dropping his voice to its usual quiet, even tone. With ten million dollars worth of cher.tical dyestuffs, drugs, jewelry and .stocks and bonds packed between her homely sides, the Deutschland is lying in this harbor ready to unload. Capt. Koenig was seated at a long table late this afternoon in a private dining room of the Mohican hotel. He was telling the story of that trip. The ship—Koenig always calls it a -ship—had an uneventful trip. It saw a lot of hostile but the hostiles never saw the Deutschland. It ran about a hundred miles under water all told on the vVhy across. It carried a cargo estimated in value at $10,000,000, including drugs, such as asperin and salvarsen, and there is an intimation .that a lot of precious stones and maybe some stocks and bonds are aboard the ship. It brought mail for the German ambassador and others in this country. The voyagers have heard nothing of the Bremen and believe that boat has been lost. The Deutschland is manned by the same crew with three 1 exceptions, that took her to Baltimore last July. _