THE UNDER-SEA CARGO CARRIER

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2821, 12 July 1916, Page 7

THE UNDER-SEA CARGO CARRIER

MORE ABOUT THE " DEUTSCHLAND * HER RETURN CARGO Australian-New Zealand Gablo Association. New York, July 10. Tho submarine Deutschlaud has arrived at Baltimore, and is discharging her cargo (450 tons of dye-stuffs, valued at .£;M(),000), -under the protection of armed guards. Tho consignees have announced tint her purpose is purely commorciafi Sho is to bo docked in a special spy-proof yard. . The cargo to m taken on board for Germany' will be 500 tons of copper, rubber, and nickel. A. description of the vessel shows that she has a high conning-towor, and several covered manholes loading to the crew's quarters and tho engine-room. Tho wireless aerials arc mounted on tcleEcopic masts. She spent a night at the bottom of tho English Channel, tho crow playing a gramophone. The vessel can descend to 300 ft., and remain submerged four nays. ' Tho food carried is tinned meat, fruit, and bread, also champagne. " Washington has received a Tcport that Jho submarino is unarmed'. Commander hairig says that tho vessel belongs to an "undersea company," and -will be followed by tho Bremen and others. A. United States officer who boarded the submorino says that her papers phow taat her gross tonnage is 791, and her net tonnage 414. She i 9 engaged in ' 'freight trade from Bremen to Boston/* left Bremen on .Tune 14, and stayed aif Heligoland for nine days. Tho British Consul states that ho knew moro than a week ago that the Deutschland iras on route to America. .Some Kew* York assert that another submarine has. left for America. ; SUBMARINE E9'S REWARD HANDSOME BOUNTIES FOE THE CREW. London, July 10. Sir Samuel Evans, President of the Admiralty JPmo Court, has awarded tho officers and crew of Submarine En bounties of =Clooo and .£350 for sinking tho German cruiser ltd a mid a German torpedo-boat. The bounties are calcnlated on the basis of .£5 per bead ,of the enemy crews. [E9 distinguished herself in the Baltic. Her exploits wero recently "written np" by Mr. TCudyard Kipling in 1113 articles on the Navy."]