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ben.
TRIP OF UNDERSEA
CRAFT THRILLING
Story of Voyage of German U
Boat Across Ocean Out
rivals Fiction.
HOSTILE SHIPS ARE DODGED
Submarine, During Hazardous 3,800
Mile Run. Submerged Many Times
to Escape Possible Attack
From Enemy.
Baltimore. Md.—Pictures of adven
ture no less thrilling titan those which
fill the pages of Jules Verne’s "Twenty
Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” are
called up by the amazing story of the
trip of the fiermnn U-boat Deutsch
land across the Atlantic ocean—a voy
age that has been pronounced the most
daring in the history of the sea.
The story of the remarkable voyage
made by this submarine—the first t<>
cross the Atlantic ocean'—through a
maze of hostile warships, has been told
simply by C’apt. Paul Koenig, com
mander of the undersea craft.
Koenig was modest about it all. He
had a few words of praise for his
crew and none for himself. When he
sj»oke of the fatherland his eyes spar
kled and his whole body twitched with
eagerness. When he talked of "just
dropping down when he saw a de
stroyer” his voice was calm.
Would He Surrender?
Just once did he display real emo
tion. That was when toward the end
of the interview this question was
suddenly shot at him :
"Suppose on your way back, just
as you left the Virginia capes, you saw
a destroyer bearing mercilessly down
Upon you. Suppose there wasn't time
fo dodge, wasn’t time to submerge,
what would you do? Would you sur
render?”
The undersea skipper's face turned
a sudden red that looked queer under
his thick weather tan. His hands
clenched, his eyes flashed, then slowly
each word painfully thought out. came
the answer:
“Would I surrender? I—couldn’t
tell about that—positively I can’t. 1
don't know—surrender? I think the
moment would bring the decision. Yes.
That moment would carry its own de
cision.”
That was the spoken reply, but in
every bit of the man’s tone, in every
set line of his face could he read the
real answer—Capt. Paul Koenig has no
Intention that the Deutschland shall
ever fall into enemy hands.
Fears No Enemy Warship.
And he lias every confidence that
lie will take the Deutschland hack to
Bremen loaded with tiie rubber and
nickel that the Fatherland so craves
for its munition factories.
“Six. ten. a dozen, twenty cruisers
.uitside will not stop us." he exclaimed.
“W'e will go back; we will go hack
easy. And we will come again, and
others will come and trade will go
hack and forth, and the British block
ade—that will he a thing to laugh at.
“The future of the submarine has
now been proved to be unlimited,” he
asserted. “There is practically no
maximum to their capacity; their
mechanism has been perfected: we
have shown that they do anything any
oilier ship can do, and more besides.
“About that I am positive. The
coming of the Deutschland. .’{.S<N> miles
to America, and her arrival with a
range of almost ten thousand miles
left, with fuel and water and supplies
and everything for that much travel
still aboard, shows that you can go
with a submarine simply where you
want to go.”
Koenig is a small man. ordinarily
looking until he begins to talk, when
his force and personality become at
once apparent.
First Submarine Trip.
One of tiie first questions asked of
him brought one of the most surpris
ing replies of the interview. Request
ed to tell In detail of all the submarine
experience he had before being select
ed to attempt the crossing, he replied
quickly:
“But yon see I have not had any.
Of course we practiced after we went
aboard. We practiced a great deal.
Navigation I know. Submarines I
think I know now.
“Was it fun? Sometimes, yes. Most
it was fun in the English channel.
Thefe we lay ten hours on the bottom,
snug and comfortable. Some of us
slept and some of us read, and most
of us listened to our graphophone play
ing a beautiful song from “Peer Gynt,”
while above us raged the destroyers
and cruisers that would have thought
us the very choicest of prey had they
hut known what lay hidden there be
low them. It was not a long ten
hours. We drank a little champagne,
and we ate and attended to the ma
chi aery.
“No. we didn't submerge because of
any cruiser chasing us; not once were
we chased.”
How They Submerged.
Nothing more vivid about adven
ture could be drawn from Koenig titan
the detailing of these times -we just
sank." As far as his words went, that
Wits all there was to it. A vessel was
sighted; the Deutschland was quickly
submerged: she ran along under water
for a time, and then—she cante up
and opened her hatches for fresh air.
while officers and men went al»out
their work, tlieir rest, or their play.
Industry. i
Industry is in itself, and when prop
erly chosen, delightful and profitable
to the worker; and when your toil has
been a pleasure you have not earned
money merely, but money, health, de
light and moral profit all in one.—Rob
ert Louis Stevenson.
Just Like Humans.
Nipher finds that it is the smaller
planets that do not obey the law of
gravity. It is the smaller people, too,
that do not want to obey anything.
“Once each dny we submerged as a
practice drill.” he said, “and besides
; we submerged, as I remember, five
times in the North sea. six in the Eng
lish channel, and three or four in the
open water.
“Yes,” laughing heartily, “yes, each
time there was a reason.
"The longest we actually stayed un
der was that len hours in the English
channel, hut we could stay four days.
At the end of that time our batteries
would be exhausted, and we would
have to rise and recharge them. Dur
ing the entire trip we traveled a total
of ninety miles under water.
“As far as the physical effect on the
ship’s company is concerned, we could
remain forever. We can submerge fifty
fathoms—three hundred feet—but us a
matter of fact we never went nearly
that deep, and probably never shall.”
Liked the Submerging.
Those on the Deutsehlnnd besides
himself were First Mate Krapuhl,vSee
ond Mate Gyring. Chief Engineer Kleis
and a crew of 25 men. Kleis. he said,
over and over again, was “the most im
portant of all.” Then he told how the
crew spent the time.
“On hoard they busied themselves
with the machinery, for practically all
of them are mechanics. They played
cards, and they ht.d their singing and
their sleeping and their sitting about,
and the time'passed.
"Best of all, they—all of us. in fact—
lik«l the submerging. Unpleasant?
Indeed it was not. It was just like
sinking into a sort of blue nest. We
open the portholes, and then through
the glass we could see the fish and the
formations of the sea. and always we
listened, listened, listened.
“How do we listen? There are
aboard two microphones, and with
them we wore able to hear the whis
tling of a buoy six miles off when we
were under water. And just before we
came up about thirty miles from the
Virginia capes, we were able to hear
the ringing of a bell buoy six miles
from us.
"The screw of a ship we could hear
quite plainly while it was yet a safe
distance from us. More than hearing
it, we could tell whether it was a
cruiser or a destroyer. It was quite
fascinating to listen so.
Details of the Trip.
Captain Koenig did not take the
Deutschland around Scotland, as has
been conjectured. He came straight
through the Channel. he said.
“We left Rremerhaven at noon on
June 14. We proceeded quietly to Hel-.
goland; there we stayed four days.
There were three reasons for that: No
ship proceeds all the way after start
ing. It is too easy to calculate when
she may he expected at some given
place. So we lay iu wait a while.
Then. too. we wanted to train the men.
During those four days we drilled and
taught them hard, and when once more
we proceeded we had a capable suit
marine crew.
“Again, we had to trim the cargo.
That must always be done after a
start is made. We must shift things
about and stow them away. And every
thing needs to be tested. All worked
nicely.
“We carried ISO tons of fuel oil. Of
that we have 05 tons left—more than
enough to take us back—and we shall
not ship any more here. Then we car
ried many tons of oxygen and twenty
tons of fresh water, of which we had
ten left.
“The last time we submerged was
as we were nearing the Virginia capes
and we saw an American boat ap
proaching. We thought it was a fruit
boat so we just dipped under for the
last time. The men were always glad
when we did that—it made such
smooth traveling. The Deutschland
scarcely rolls at all under water.
“And that about completes the story
of the voyage. We traveled, we saw
ships and submerged, we traveled
iigain on the surface and at last we
arrived.”
The Deutschland, built by the Krnpp
Germania works, cost $500,000. This
voyage will pay for her, he said.
Boat a Mass of Machinery.
As described by Dr. John C. Travers,
assistant U. S. health officer, who was
taken through the boat by Captain
Koenig, the Deutschland’s interior ap
pears to be mainly a mass of machin
ery. She has but one deck below and
a seventeen-foot deptli of hold for her
cargo. Dr. Travers descended through
the forward hatch, where he found
the crew’s quarters, bunks on either
side of a narrow passageway leading
to compartments occupied by the cap
tain and his two officers. The cap
tain’s room is scarcely six feet square
and barely high enough for a man
to stand.
It is furnished all in metal, with
the exception of a small oak desk.
Directly beneath the officers' quarters
is the dynamo, which stores electrical
energy to drive the vessel when sub
merged.
Next Dr. Travers was taken into
the officers’ messroom. scarcely larger
than the staterooms, with a galley
huilt with all the economy of space
of a Pullman dining-car kitchen. Aft
the messroom. about one-third the
ship’s length from her stern, is the
submerging machinery and two peris
copes.
Calls It Amazing Sight.
“I never saw such a mass of ma
chinery in ray life.” said Dr. Travers.
“It was an amazing sight and I doubt
if it would mean much except to the
engineer who designed it. There
seemed to be 5,000 different pieces,
an inexplicable tangle of burnished
copper and glistening steel.”
Aft of the submerging machinery
were the submarine's two powerful
Diesel oil engines which propel her
on the surface.
Captain Koenig told the doctor that
while on the surface the noise of the
machinery was almost deafening.
Reader’s Grave Error.
“East Lynne.” which ultimately
proved more valuable than a gold
mine to those who published and pro
duced it in book and play form, is said
to have been rejected in manuscript
by George Meredith, the author, when
he was reader for Chapman ft Wall
of London.
Daily Thought
It Is a sign of a great mind to de
spise greatness, and to prefer things in
measure to things in excess.—Seneca.
FORBOBDjR SERVICE
ADJUTANT GENERAL HALL MAY
GO WITH CAVALRY.
HELD UP BY TRAIN WRECK
Items of General Interest Gathered
From Reliable Sources Around
the State House.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
That attempts are now being made
to organize a troop of Nebraska cav
alry for border service is the asser
tion of a member of Adjutant General
Hall’s staff, who was left behind when
the government refused to muster in
members of the adjutant general's de
partment. General Hall, he says, is
determined to go to the border. Twen
ty Lincoln men hav® already promised
to j$in in case the troop is organized.
Ninety are needed.
Staff officers left behind will check
up the accounts at each company’s
home station, after which it is said
that they will resign and get to the
Nebraska troops on the border in
some manner. General Hall presum
ably will be made captain of the troop,
if organized, as he was deprived of
his office as captain of company H of
the Fifth regiment by the orders of I
the war department. Endeavors will
be made, according to the staff mem
ber. to recruit for the cavalry when
the officers visit the various towns
to close up company affairs. He said
that little trouble in getting the men [
was expected.
Temporary structures at the fair
grounds erected for the convenience
of the guardsmen during their late
encampment are being dismantled,
and soon every vestige of their pres
ence will have disappeared, with the
exception of the grass-worn company
streets. Sheep have already been
turned back into the grounds.
Biggest Camp on the Border.
The Fourth Nebraska under Colo
nel George Eberly and Lieutenant
Colonel William Baehr. detrained at j
Llano Grande. Tex., in a terrific ;
rainstorm and immediately set about j
pitching camp.
Many delays were encountered
along the last one hundred miles of
the journey. Mercedes had been se
lected for the concentration camp,
but a suitable tract large enough to
encamp all the soldiers expected
could not he obtained and the camp
was moved three miles west. It is
expected that this will be one of the
biggest concentration camps along
the border.
Fifth Nebraska Held Up by Wreck.
The Fifth Nebraska regiment was
held for some time at Muskogee. Okia.,
because of a freight wreck near Hoff
man, Okla.. which blocked the rail
road. The third section was held on
its arrival, and the first and second
brought back for route diversion.
The Fifth regiment followed the
trail of the Fourth through Oklahoma,
and it WE3 common gossip on the
train that it will be encamped near
the Fourth when it reaches its desti
nation at Mercedes. Tex.
Railroad officials are said to believe
this was a plot to wreck the Fifth regi
ment and hospital corps.
Bishop Beecher Gets to Go.
The special muster blank which
would permit Captain George A.
Beecher of Hastings to go with the
Fifth regiment as chaplain arrived
"O. K." and he was mustered in in
time to get with the regimental staff
in the first section. It was found
that under the new federalized act, a
chaplain is unassigned, when he Is
first mustered in with the regimental
staff, and that it is necessary for him
to sign a special muster blank and
take a separate oath before he can
be considered attached to any one
regiment.
Major John Mr. Birkner, commis
sioned chief surgeon of the Fourth
Nebraska regiment with the rank of
major and the oldest officer of the
Nebraska national guard in point of
service, was given a farewell recep
tion by the German Family society, of
Lincoln, on the eve of his departure
for the Texas border. Dr. Birkner
is ex-president of the society and is &
member of its singing club.
General Phil Hall was the most
heart-broken man in the crowds when
the last train left Lincoln for the bor
der. It had been his devout wish from
the first to go with his men, men with
whom he has worked with might and
main for three years past, and with
such honor to the state and to the
guards, but a stern war department
ruling forbade. Brushing back the
tears when the puffs of the hard
worked engines had died down, the
general said vey emphatically:
“I’ll bet I get down there before they
come back. Just see if I don't."
Thirty-three Counties Report.
Assessments from thirty-three coun
ties whose total assessed valuation is
5141.674,304 show a total increase of
56.055.983, or an average increase of
5183,514 per county. This indicates
an increase of about 517,000,000 in the
total assessed valuation of the state,
which is considered small in view of
the fact that prices of land have is
creased throughout the country during
the past five years. Brown county is
the third to show a decrease. Its as
sessed value is 511.10S less than it
was last year.
Recommendations for mere advanced
preliminary and final qualifications for
license to practice osteopathy in Ne
braska have been made by the state
board of osteopathic examiners, who
recommended to the state association
a four years' course in osteopathy of
nine months each, instead of the pres
ent three years of ten months each.
Preliminary requirements were recom
mended as a four year high school
course or a degree from e. college or
university, with a non-medical educa
tional beard, independent of the exam
iners. to pass on these qualifications.
CHRONOLOGY OF MOBILIZATION
Nebraska Boys Leave for Service on
Mexican Border.
June 19-—Governor Morehead re
ceived orders from war department to
mobilize national guard. State military
board conferred. Place of mobilization
undecided, but Ashland favored by the
government.
June 20—Wisner supply company,
first troops to go into camp, arrived
at state fair grounds.
June 21—Fair grounds. Lincoln, de
cided upon for mobilization site.
June 22—Field and staff officers,
medical officers, non-commissioned
staff, field hospital. K company, Fourth
regiment. Osceola; B company. Fifth,
from Nebraska City, sanitary-troops
from Fremont and Bennet, went into
camp.
June 23—All organized companies
went into camp.
June 27—Newly formed companies
from Grand Island and North Platte
had reached camp.
June 23—Eleven members of Gordon
company, I of the Fourth, refused to
sign muster rolls, but consented after
explanations.
June 29—Gothenburg company, L of
Fifth, delayed in mustering by refusal
of several men to sign muster rolls.
June 30—Fourth regiment had lost a
hundred men by physical examinations.
July 1—Captain Herschel Tupes,
federal mustering officer, appealed for
recruits.
July 4—Fifth regiment had lost 140
men by physical tests.
July 7—Fourth regiment and signal
company entrained for Mexican border
service.
July 9—Fifth regiment and field hos
pital entrained for Mexican border
service.
Injunction Will Hold.
In the injunction case, long pend
ing. whereby William Kearney
sought to prevent Commandant
Walsh from ejecting him and his
wife from the Soldier's Home at
Grand Island on the ground that they
were not dependent, having property
and Mr. Kearney conducting an auto
mobile line between the city and the
home, the court has decided the in
junction against the commandant will
hold until such time as the state
board of control adopts a ruling un
der which the commandant would
have authority to act.
Pay Nebraskans Deserved Tribute.
A deserved tribute was paid to the
Nebraska troops by the citizens of
Denison. Tex., who declared they were
the most orderly, the most obedient,
and the most manly soldiers who have
passed through that town. Guards
men from eight or nine states have
passed through Denison in the past
ten days en route to the border. A
committee of business men met the
boys at the station and distributed
cigars, stamped postal cards and
newspapers among them.
Waging War on “Near Seer.”
State Food Commissioner Harman is
conducting a little war of his own
against “near beer” shipped into the
state. He recently warned dealers
that* they must brand the percentage
of alcohol in any drink sold by them.
He is now turning his machine guns
against cider. He has been informed
that large quantities of cider have
been shipped from St. Louis to Ne
braska, the seller representing to
dealers that if they buy cider they
need not pay a revenue tax to the
government which they must pay
when they buy “near beer” or beer.
Mr. Harman says cider contains from
5 to 10 per cent of alcohol and it
must bear a label stating the percent
age or the dealer w*i!l be prosecuted
under the state food law for misbrand
isg goods.
Tears came into the eyes of Mose
McFarland, one of the best known
conductors connected with the Union
Pacific lines in Nebraska, when he
was told that his son Sidney, had,
through a slight physical defection,
failed to pass examination at mobiliza
tion camp. Mr. McFarland lives in
North Platte. When the call for mil
itiamen came and a company was be
ing organized in that town under R. P.
Halligan, Sidney McFarland was one
of the first boys to enlist He was un
der age. and it was necessary to se
cure the consent of his parents. “I
would disown a son if he wouldn’t re
spond to the call to arms when his na
tion needs him,” was the way Mr. Mc
Farland gave his consent.
An important ruling made by the
state legal department will exempt
some state banks of Nebraska from
paying semi-annual assessments to
that state guaranty fund hereafter
The holding is that whenever the ac
cumulated guaranty fund payments by
any individual bank reach li£ per
cent of its deposits, it shall not be
liable for further assessments until
the reserve is depleted below 1 per
cent. Heretofore it had been sup
posed that the 1% per cent proviso
applied to the guaranty fund as a
whole rather than to individual banks
Department Cannot Act at Once.
Because it has not yet adopted a
policy covering the manner in which
it will deal with aviators in the state
militia the war department will not
act at once on the request of Adjutant
General Hall of Nebraska that a com
pany of thirty-nine be mustered into
the federal service so that the men
can be sent to Newport News for train
ing. It is indicated that the most that
can be expected at present is the ac
ceptance of six novice aviators.
State Food Commissioner Harman
reports that oil inspection fees far June
exceeded those of any previous month
in the history of the oil inspection de
partment. The fees amounted to $11,
103.55, or $3,333.75 in excess of the
fees of the same month lust year.
After hearing arguments Judge
Stewart of the district court sustained
the appeal of the Nebraska dry federa
tion and ordered Secretary of State
Pool to certify out to the county clerks
the ballot title for the prohibition con
stitutional amendment contended for
by the officers of the dry federation.
THE EUROPEAN WAR A
YEAR AGOTHIS W EK
July 17. 1915.
Hindenburg forced Russians back
toward the Narew.
Russians repulsed Austrians on
the Vistula.
Cunarder Orduna arrived at New
Yorl after escaping from subma
rine attack.
German foreign office replied to
report of Bryce commission.
July 13, 1915.
Teutons developed immense of
fensive along entire Russian front.
Mackensen broke Russian line at
Krasnostaw.
Germans checked French at Sou
chez but lost to them on the Meuse
heights.
Italians began offensive in Ca
dore.
Austrian submarine sank Italian
cruiser Giuseppe Garibaidi.
July 19, 1915.
French repulsed repeated Ger
man attacks on Meuse heights.
Artillery battle near Souchez.
Entire Russian line between Vis
tula and Bug fell back, fighting
hard.
Austrians pushed over the Wo
licza river.
British gained ground in Gal
lipoli.
Turks attacked by British below
Nasiriyeh in Arabia.
July 20, 1915.
British captured German trenches
east of Ypres.
Reims again bombarded by Ger
mans.
Teutons advanced on entire east
ern line, taking Ostrolenka, Blonie,
Grojec and Radom.
Italians made general attack
from Tarvis to the Adriatic.
Italians advanced five miles in
Cadore.
Fifty-nine Turkish vessels laden
with war supplies sunk near Trebi
zond by Russian submarines.
French aviators bombarded three
German stations.
Welsh coal strike ended.
July 21, 1915.
French started new offensive in
the Vosges, capturing heights do
minating Fecht valley.
Germans gained on east edge of
the Argonne.
Russians made desperate stand
around Warsaw.
Great battle south of Ivangorod.
Austro-Germans driven across the
Bug in Sokol district.
Italians gained along the Isonzo
and captured approaches to Goritz.
July 22, 1915.
French took heights west and
north of Munster, Alsace.
Russians evacuated Windau, and
retreated In the Baltic provinces.
Teutons attacked Ivangorod.
Goritz and Tolmino practically
surrounded by Italians.
French aviators bombarded
Autry station.
July 23, 1915.
Severe fighting around Munster.
Germans massing on the Meuse.
Germans crossed the Narew but
forts checked their advance on
Warsaw.
British win in further fighting in
southern Arabia.
Austrian cruisers bombarded
Italian coast towns.
Third U. S. Lusitania note to Ger
many published.
Defends Cat’s Reputation.
"My cat does not stay out late
nights,” was the defense offered In
a Riverside, Cal., court by Mrs. R. S.
Allinder against the charge of her
neighbors that her black Persian had.
corrupted the morals of other cats of
the neighborhood. •
Many ‘‘character’ witnesses were
put on the stand by Mrs. Allinder, who
Is suing her neighbor, Mrs. W. G. Far
rar, for the disappearance of the ani
mal, whose value is placed at $25. Mrs.
Farrar protested that the cat ate her
chickens and made night hideous with
its yowling.
In continuing the cas'. Justice Ellis,
alluding to the assaults on the Per
sian’s reputation, remarked that when
a cat of one species is let out of a
house and meets cats of another spe
cies there is likely to be considerable
commotion.
The Privileged Classes.
A cockney angler, thinking that his
Highland boatman was not treating
him with the respect due to his sta
tion, expostulated thus:
"Look here, my good man, you don't
seem to grasp who I am. Do you
know that my family have been en
titled to bear arms for the last two
hundred years?”
"Hoots, that’s naething!” was the
reply. "My ancestors have been en
titled to bare legs for the last two
thousand years.”—Youth’s Compan
ion.
Just What He Lack*.
“Mr. Grabcoin is a great believer
in efficiency.”
“Poor old gentleman! He has my
sympathy.”
"Why so?”
"I’m personally acquainted with
young Montgomery Grabcoin."
A Political Wonder.
"He was a great man, won many
victories at the polls.”
"Yes?”
"And even when he got defeated
people said he defeated hinuelf.”