OCR Text |
Show DEUTSCHLAND IS UNDERTHEWAVES German Submarine Dives Off the Virginia Capes on Its Return Trip. Norfolk, Aug. 2. The German submarine sub-marine merchantman Deutschland passed out of the Virginia capes at S;30 o'clock tonight on her homeward voyage, apparently unobserved by the allied warships' patrol waiting outside the three-mile limit. She was accompanied accom-panied to the capes only by the tug Thomas F. Tlmmins, which had convoyed, con-voyed, her down the bay from Baltimore, Balti-more, and by a newspaper dispatch boat. Her departure to sea followed an eighteen-mile dash through the lower Chesapeake bay. After proceeding slowly most of the way down, she Increased In-creased her power at 6:30 and reached the capes just after dusk. None of the allied cruisers were visible as she passed through. Half an hour after the last light of the Deutschland had disappeared, the Timmins, seemingly satisfied with her work, turned back and headed up Chesapeake bay in the direction of Baltimore. Remains Hidden. For several hours before the begin nlng of her final dash she lay in a secluded retreat near Tangier island, about fifty miles above Cape Henry. The steamer Somerset and the government govern-ment buoy-tender Ivy reported during the early afternoon that they had passed her at that point. The press boat then took a position near the dividing di-viding point of the Old Point and Cape Henry channels and awaited the coming com-ing of the undersea vessel. Another press boat later found the Deutschland and followed her to the capes. Instead of going to Baltimore, toward to-ward which she headed after leaving 'the Deutschland, the Timmins came in here tonight. "Well, she's off and well on her way back to the old country," said Captain Hinsch. "Just as she started out to sea," he said, "Captain Koenig and the crew of the Deutschland came on deck and gave three rousing cheers for America and the American people. The sea was rou.erh and the snray was splash ing high, but the hearty cheers of the men of the Deutschland rang clearly over the waves. Captain Koenig yelled yell-ed something to mo in farewell, but the submarine was pulling out rapidly and the distance between us was too great for me to hear what he said. "For about a mile the Deutschland ployed boldly through the billows of the Atlantic. When about a mile outside out-side the capes we could see her lights slowly disappearing as she submerged." sub-merged." The captain declared the submersible submer-sible again will go through the English Eng-lish channel. "There is no chance that the British Brit-ish cruisers will find the Deutsche land," he said. Confidence was expressed by the captain that the Bremen would soon make "an American port. nn |