SAW DEUTSCHLAND CAPTIVE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 274, 11 May 1917, Page 4 (Supplement)

SAW DEUTSCHLAND CAPTIVE.

SEAMAN REPORTS HER TIED UP AT PLYMOUTH.

William Palmer, second engineer of the .steamer Mongolia. saiuVat Baltimore on February 16 that the freight submarine Dciitachlnnd had l>een captured by tho British, and that lie had seen her in Plymouth Harbour with more than a hundred other captured German craft. Palmer said the Bntisa had captured 400 German submarines since the opening of the war, and that I*7 of them, including tho Deiitsrhland, weid tied up in Plymouth rLvhour chained together, and is the centre of a network of lingo chains attached to buoys nad wharves. Captain Koenig coiiunander of tho snbse.i freighter, and b's entire crew are in Kniilish gaols. Palmer asserted. The Mongolia, sailed from New York for London on December 31 lv-t with a cargo of munitions, and nut into Plymouth on .January 11. She left there on January i-'" and reached New Yor'v again on l-'ebrunry 7. It was while the vc*«m I was at the F,ngl : sh port. Palmer c :l i,l i that he <aw the captured submarine... Tic Dfiitselilaiul was in a ula e whore -he could bo ivadilv necn from shore, b ■ declared, and the letters of lirr na wliu-li on her trips to the I'niled Stales were paink'd thn .same nl.mr I- her bull, had l.c-n picked out ,„ „|,n,., s ., s!„ Id ei-dv be :d-nti-l.e.l

Pholo-raphs of the submarine v. rapped « 'lb ihe rlriins were oil exlule I'iiliner "aid. Where Captain K,„.|ie ami h j; crew were detained lie ,l„| ,„,i |,„„,v. luil he said he had heard ||, ,| ,|| u.ie put iii gaol a.i Noon as the , ~,( ,| i.-vi-l «as br lit to |Hiit. 11,. ,fi,| n,,i I.min |.,e.v ih" Deutschlnnd u.w .aplillvd