Show U BOAT BASH EASY DECLUES CAPTAIN DARING OF SUBMARINE ACROSS THE ATLANTIC DE SCRIBED BY COMMANDER DODGED FOE BY submerging undersea craft dropped to bottom of ocean at simoa alm i to avoid possible dangers threaded maze of hostile warships baltimore ald Md A and we sat down upon the floor of tho the british channel because tile root was ns crowded with nosey destroyers and we drunk good french we snug sang weve veo rings on oil our fingers and hells bells on our toes and presently the destroyers gave gae us its room on tile the root roof and we came up tip and went on oil to america it was ull lill just as simple as that atell I 1 tell 11 you 1 thus simply did capt paul koenig ter of tile german submarine deutsch an describe tile during daring voyage of his undersea craft through tile north sen sea which was enemy vessels and across tho the atlantic oc ean to the port of baltimore what Is there about my voyage to caul batio nil all tills commotion asked tile captain of it group of reporters porters ic who were eagerly questioning him ing the great game of tilde and seek which he played with the british navy on ills his nitle mile dash across the waters 1 I have inn e done nothing anybody who has sense enough to navigate la ii boat and who builds a boat like the lie Deutsch deutschland land can call tie do equally well better I 1 belo believe captain koenig will lime have it no other way than that tile lie british grip on oil ger annn commerce Is shortly to be broken we have proved it lie sat sald his eyes eje albre with enthusiasm wo we are building a 2000 ton submarine that eliat will be able to onge voynne miles without replenishing al 11 ll tanks and the british cant catch us its wo we tough laugh at them thein look now lit at that eliat flag dug lie ho pointed to the house hag flag of tile the deutsche Deutsc lie ozean Ithe derel the corporation po ration of bremen which devised se I 1 the undersea trading plan tito the Deutsch deutschland land wont went from bremer haven out to sea in the light of day on juno june 11 14 went in tile tho early caily morning as matter of factly ns as a scow of bricks or lumber front from any new york pier clips out into the lie harbor and down to the file lower tiny bay neither bremen up tip the river nor Bremer bremerhaven haven gate to the north sea sent bonds to blare bearo farewell or crowds to cheer i koenig laid a course straight it to Gernin nys north sea gibraltar helgo land why tild did you do that hr was I 1 asked knew foe was near we knew that british warships were somewhere about lie ho sold and wo we wanted to lay up at helgeland Hel goland ter for some days to fool them thein there Is always it a chance that lint spies may reveal the comings and goings of our ships and it was wise to mark time for a little white while in tills this case only ono one alien so far fai as I 1 knew had our secret lie ire was the american consul at brenen bremen win thomas fee whose duty it was vas to approve our lie ile was to be trusted naturally but we could take no chances cli ances we loafed pleasantly helgeland Hel goland under tinder the shado of the big guns until the lie morning of june 23 tito the time was passed useful ya n improving the training indof of tile irell good follows fellows my boys about these men now say at a word or them it you sou must hold us its up tip to tho the worlds eyes they are good fel fellows bows tiny ny boys boss strong fellows most blost of them ire quite young most are married and are rosy chocked bt lles bles to grow tip op for germanys germanas Germ anys glory they are till all fine due mechanics and full of what do you say pop that Is it on the morning of june 23 we turned westward in the north sen sea and headed straight glit for the british channel somebody lias has said maid that we went all the way around scotland nonsense why should we wel it was easy enough to fool tile the british nil and going through tile channel was play what were your best aids to navi ml cation captain how did you sou figure out your safe progress under tinder sea microphone aided cruise tito microphone and our device for taking soundings while submerged subiner ged did the trick everybody levers body understands these lays days what the microphone Is an undersea telephone so delicate that it catches and records tile tho vibrations of any bulk moving upon or under tinder the waves w aves we have two microphones on the Deutsch deutschland land one on the port one on oil the starboard side one of us its an n om ter it if possible kept nil an ear always to the transmitter when wo we heard disturbing murmurs th rugh our little eavesdropper we stopped lend kad still anbe or wont went attend ahead slowly sometimes we dropped to the seal sea floor anel kept its as still as a mouse until we coulee figure out what the menace was fet sometimes L wo we merely dropped flits fifty feet or r so fie beneath lie surface and anchored in that position suspended Ie between tween the lie surface will the bottom tito microphones warned us of cruisers and destroyers dost st and sometimes of buoyed mines 11 how he fie dodged mines about these mines somebody cut in we have heard that tho the channel Is sown own with them that they run in solid lanes across tho the straits of dover you bothered by these kinf 1 how did you lodge them tl icia you like to know now falig laughed hell koeneg it lit Is a n secret oui method for avoiding mine fields but this fills touch much I 1 call say we know it 11 trick to beat the mines danger and I 1 used it in roy my rtin mix through the channel taking souna soundings inga Is simple there Is 14 n u tube which projects front from tile tho Deutsch lands bottom and through I tube we u heave the lend lead by a sy of valves wo we prevent water tile tha hull while tile soundings lie are beindit taken hut but tills Is dry talk let me tell you vou about our happiest evening the champagne party then the title of the chan ninne vay cattle out and ve me felt that way sold koenig to 0 o the bells on our ofir fingers song wo we ivero ver the fanger ringed hell toed boys and we cine care it dallin for nil all tile british ships of the chan net nel patrol nid of the lie perilous straits finally the lie Deutsch deutschland land breasted the atlantic rollers and proceeded upon its busi nemi officers and crew hall plenty of time on in heir hands the long days das nod nights were divided into four hour hoir watches shifts on oil duty for four hours at lellure for four on duty again for four and so on incessantly they hey katt vigilant watch for enemy croft craft any craft koeneg who knows new york as well na its lie he knows bremen says 1 uie he north son sea and the channel were as crowded its as broadway Uro adway tint and at night about ns as garishly lighted with those tewo detestable destroyers playing tag nil all over tile lie vv vaters liters with their searchlights A lotof time lie he poked tile the peri periscope clear and sighted looming perils just in fit little to live dive without being spot tort tod hut but there were dull hours had phonograph aboard how lid did you iou folks amuse yourselves r e ves ho he was asked mostly lie said with the phonograph livery every submarine curries carries it a phonograph it Is as much mitch of the submarines equipment as a torpedo tulie tube we keep it going pretty steadily nt at times dines of course when there was wag no special danger in enjoying music and we lind hall n alne lot of records though the american Ameil can records were not especially ally up to date have any time to read captain did the ship boast of a library you bet it did he replied we have a fine little library of german american english and spanish books it was remarkable koenig said sald all things considered how seldom the submarine was forced to live dive in the entire trip only ninety miles was tin nn der surface going tills this ninety miles was logged as straight progress and did not include tho the times the deutsch land annd simply dimply went below and sat bat on its bunkers staying staging there until it felt it was quite judicious for a hice alee fat quite helpless U boat to isk sun or moonlight there never was a close call no warship saw them not one time in fit the whole trip were we seen by a warship 11 explained captain koenig and I 1 very much doubt if as many ns as halt half a dozen mer chant ships spied us we of course coune saw scores of craft the very last one on we sighted was thirty miles oft off tho the virginian capes a big white fruit boat rolling home from jamaica I 1 suppose tito deutschland Deutsc Deutsch liland land submerged less than twenty times from Bremer bremerhaven haven to norfolk six times in tile north sea it reckoned dip as the better part six times in the english channel and six bis times in tile the atlantic once in the channel iannel Cl it clung citing to the sea floor for ten hours it can stay down four lays davs it if necessary it can resist tile ho terrific pressure pre ssuie of feet of water boat a mass of machinery As described by dr john 0 C travers Tra verB assistant U S health officer who wits taken through the boat by captain koenig the interior appears to be mainly a mass of machinery ery slie site tills haa but one leek deck below and a n seventeen foot depth of hold for her cargo dr travers descended through the forward hatch lint cli where ho he found tile tho crews quarters bunks on either cither side of a narrow passageway leading to compartments occupied by tile the captain and his two officers the captains room Is scarcely six feet square anil barely high enough tor for a man to stand it Is furnished nil all in metal with tile lie exception of a small oak desk directly beneath the officers quarters ts Is the dynamo which stores stoics electrical energy to drive tile the vessel when submerged next dr travers was taken into the lie nill cers scarcely larger alina the staterooms state rooms with it galley built with nil all the economy of space of it pallmon lining car kitchen aft the about one third the ships length front from lier stern Is the submerging machinery and two perls periscopes calls it amazing sight 1 11 I never saw such a mass of machinery lit in my life said dr travers Tra vcra it was wag al ar qI right annil I 1 doubt if it woultz mean much except to the engineer who designed it there seemed to ho be different pieces tin an inexplicable manglo of burnished copper tint and glistening steel aft of the submerging machinery were the submarines two powerful cleel oil engines which propel her on tile surface captala hoellig told tile tho doctor that while on the surface tho the noise of tile machinery was almost den deafening fenIng when submerges sub mergel said the skipper site filio moves almost silently and then we wa enjoy ourselves |