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Show GEUTSCIL1I IS HELD ITiLTIW Many Conferences Aboard Submersible; No Signs of Early Departure. BALTIMORE, July 28. An extra crew today went aboard the tug Thomas F. Tim m ins, which is to tow the submarine Deutschland to the capes. Afterward a conference was held on the tug by Captain Paul Koenig, the Deutschland 's commander; Captain Frederick Hinsch of the North German Lloyd steamer Neckar and Captain Zach Cullison of the tugboat. A pilot was reported to have arrived at the Deutschland 's pier about the time the extra men went on the Tim-mins, Tim-mins, but officers of the Maryland Pilots' Pi-lots' association said no pilot had been supplied the submarine and that none so far had been requested. Testing of the submersible "s engines continued today. This has been going on for several days, and when it became known that several conferences took place today between Constructor Gustave Prussc and Captains Koenig and Hinsch. a theory the-ory was evolved that some defect in the machinery still existed. This was denied officially, however, and it was said the tests were to keep everything in working order. |