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Show GERMANY BREAKS BRITISHJBLOGKADE SUBMARINE LOADED WITH DYE-STUFFS DYE-STUFFS CROSSES ATLANTIC OCEAN IN SAFETY. Other Subsea Ships are Expected ta Make Regular Trips Between This Country and Europe in the Future. Baltimore. Bearing a message from .Emperor William to President Wilson, running the -gantlet of innumerable dangers from mines, sea-sweepers and enemy warships, and bringing a cargo of dyestuffs, chemicals and mail the German undersea merchantman Deutschland; reached this port Sunday night. It was the completion of a 4,000-mile voyage, the longest and most hazardous hazard-ous ever attempted .by any submarine. The Deutschland carries, mounted In her conning tower, two small guns of about 3-inch caliber. No torpedo tubes are visible. 'She is capable of submerging in less than two minutes. On the surface of the water the submersible sub-mersible has a speed of from two to three knots an hour more than the average merchant steamer. The submarine carries a carge of approximately ap-proximately 750 tons, of which about 100 tons consists of chemicals and dye-stuffs dye-stuffs consigned to five New York houses, it was announced. Arrival of the undersea craft had been anxiously awaited toy the New York consignee of her cargo. The supplies she brought are those most urgently needed in the drug trade and to relieve the shortage of dyestuffs. While the New York merchants knew the submarine was on her way they had little detailed information re garding the history-making voyage. They estimated that the submarine carried 150 tons of mail which the (business men of Germany had been unable to get past the British censor. Fifteen days out from Bremerhaven to Baltimore, the submarine reached safety between the Virginia capes at 1:45 o'clock Sunday morning, passing In with darkness which settled over th entrance of the bay with the setting of a telltale half moon. Once inside, the visitor threw caution to the winds and begun shrieking his siren, signaling signal-ing a pilot and at the same time attracting at-tracting the attention of the tug Thomas Thom-as F. Timmins, which had been waiting in the lower bay for nearly two weeks to greet the Deutschland and convoy her into port. The Deutschland is the first vessel under the Germant merchant flag to enter an American port since the early days of the war, when Teutonic craft raced in to save themselves from Brit Jsh warships. While the forwarding company officers are reticement, there are strong intimation that she will not be the last. According to reports another an-other submarine already is on the way across and she and the Deutschland are members of a fleet of such vessels built or -building which will be employed em-ployed regularly in the trans-Atlantic trade as long as the war continues. |