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Show SUBMARINE STARTS OH HOMEWARD TBIP DEUTSCH LAND CLEARS FROM t BALTIMORE AND WILL MAKE 1 DASH FOP GERMANY. I Captain is Confident of Eluding Warships War-ships of Allies and Reaching the Fatherland With Much Needed Supplies. ; Baltimore. On August 1, the sec- ond anniversary of Germany's declaration dec-laration of war against Russia, the i German submarine merchantman ,' Deutschland set out from Baltimore .' on a return voyage to Germany with I a declaration of confidence from her commander, Captain Paul Koenig, that he would take her home In spite of the heavy odds she would face when the three-mile limit in the Atlantic ocean is reached. Caplain Koenig and his crew of twenty-seven men put to sea with the knowledge that a man hurried to a telephone with a message to agents for the entente allies that the Deutschland Deutsch-land had started. They knew how long he had watched at the end of a nearby pier, day and night, but the little captain went out of Baltimore harbor smiling and waving his cap. His last words in the harbor were of praise for America and for his treatment treat-ment here by Baltimore customs authorities. au-thorities. To Guy Steele, surveyor of customs, he said: "We came here dubious about our reception. We go back certain that the friendliest of feeling exists in America for Germany. You have been more than courteous, and the fatherland father-land will not forget it." Captain Koenig knew that eight warships of the entente allies were awaiting for him at the edge of the three-mile limit, spread out in a radius ra-dius of five miles. "We shall have to pass unseen within that radius in order or-der to escape," he said. "We shall have to make that passage under conditions con-ditions not entirely advantageous to us. Were the water at that point 150 feet deep it would be easier. We could submerge deeply enough to pass underneath the warships. But the water there is not 150 feet deep. We shall therefore have to pass between the warships." |