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Show ENGLAND'S ROLE OF SEAJROKEN SUBMARINE CAPTAIN SAYS BOATS WILL RUN BLOCKADE AT WILL OF OWNERS. Trip of Marine Merchantman Has Demonstrated That the Merchant Submarine is Practicable and Has Come to Stay. Baltimore. Upon delivering his ! ship's papers to the office of the North German-Lloyd line on Monday, Capt. Paul Koenig of the submarine merchantman Deutschland, . which has arrived here from Germany with a cargo of dyestuffs, has issued a formal for-mal statement declaring his voyage across the Atlantic had broken England's Eng-land's rule of the seas. "We have brought a most valuable cargo of dyestuffs to our American friends, dyestuffs which have been so much needed since months in America Amer-ica and which the ruler of the seas has not allowed the great American republic to import," said Captain Koenig. Koe-nig. "While England will not allow anybody the same right on the ocean, because she rules the waves, we have by means of the submarine commenced com-menced to break this rule. "Great Britain cannot, however, hinder boats such as ours to go and come as we please. Our trip passing Dover across the ocean was an un eventful one. When danger approached approach-ed we went below the surface, and here we are safely in an American port, ready to return in due course. "Our trip has demonstrated that the big merchant submarine is practical and that it has come to stay. We expect ex-pect the venture to be a great financial finan-cial success. This ship can carry a cargo of 1,000 tons and on this trip carried 750 tons of dyestuffs, valued at $1,000,000. The charges for the shipment ship-ment alone will pay for the cost of the Deutschland, about $500,000. On this trip we carried no mails, nor did we carry money or securities. Alsp we came without insurance, running entirely at our own risk." |