Deutschland Reaches Germany

Horowhenua Chronicle, 2 November 1916, Page 3

Deutschland Reaches Germany

RETURN VOYAGE FROM AMERICA Amsterdam, Aug 24. According to a Bremen telegram the owners of the submarine 'Dentschlandi announce that the vessel yesterday afternoon anchored off the mouth of the AVesor. All on board were ivell.- Reuter. -X- The submarine "liner" Deutschland reached America on July 9 with a cargo of <lycstuffs. and left on the return voyage on. August 1. She has thus taken 22 days on the trip from United States to Germany. The Germans loudly acclaimed the vessel as the pioneer of a Transatlantic submarine, mercantile service, inaugurated by a. company at Bremen, entitled the "Ocean Company, Limited." for which several similar boats were being built. A sister-ship, the Bremen, was reported to have left Germany on July 11. Nothing has been heard of her since, and lnucli anxiety has been expressed in Germany as to lier fate. tt will Im recalled that a dispute as to the status of the "Deutschland in American waters was settled by the decision of the authorities to treat her as a merchantman. incapable of coilversion into a warship at sea. Her return cargo was reported to be' 400 tons of nickel and 300 tons of rubber. German boasts about the exploit of the Deutschland were somewhat discounted at the time of her appearance by the mention of the facts that in 19'14 two submarines for the Australian Nav.v travelled over 12.000 miles on their delivery to the Commonwealth under their own motive poAver; that in 1911 the first British submarine flotilla for duty overseas sailed, from Devonport to the China station; and that j ten submarines built in Canada crossed the Atlantic last summer.