DEUTSCHLAND AND BRI

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7914, 4 August 1917, Page 4 (Supplement)

DEUTSCHLAND AND BRI

WHAT HAS BEOGMK of Mr. Carl W. American correspondent ’,v contributed an article t 0 States press on April irt Rieutschiiaud. the sup/.-r-sul chant vessel, which made twl? America. He says’ 11 l*™ 1 “WlWBt Deutschland, tho 700-toii V \ us lit sailed into Bremen, l! uuc-k witli two polos in j t . ' inuig up tiie Wiener River li;o ivrupp interests to L piles trail the United Slat, munition plants last v«„ f making, temporarily ' guns and other ctiniion nickel steel, Inxuiiso m vvi il ualtlfi minerals and ore, conk tained in Europe. Either K. stop manufacturing nickel nitrons—cannon, armour it moured automobile,—or'ti had to he brought from ' Deutschluid wus designed | ed, launched, and 'dhw! Krupp interests to solve the military problem ol' a shortl ores and rubber.

The German navy, w stirring up unti-Ariierican L ever it could, selected tiic « Deutschland, and placed , discharged naval officer, a c lect and bring back inform! the United States r,.'g:u ( |C ness, public opinion, and to, mgs and investigations i, miters wherever the Mil,i,, lril Hie liest evidence tliat G™ r eadied tho maxim urn point of heavy artillery i. u land’s cargoes. Thev many has reached the iuJJ 'tary efficiency, that ntu tenuis are lacking n-kich a„ gun construction. But tlij mean that Germany is within a few 7 weeks or liionrhi has plenty of iron and coi®,, lent coal to run her aitnij war material factories for v. make the big 38.5- wiitinoU armour plate, and tlie ucivt» “tank,” tlie finest.quality of, is 'needed

Agents were sent to the lit via Copenhagen to noli;, German fJoyd repre-eirtat* purchase supplies and 114 merits for tire arrival of tit land at Baltimore,. I'iv "ho came here reported toll secret service. And, uliilrd lend was being built and tri. Baltic sea, where ail Knbnud first sailed, German agent*], supplies for Krupp nnd eolki mation for tho German u r before tile Deutschland rti« its first trip to the United visited the Krupp work,, at £ I was given tho lir>t uwun illation about tin* nu r-hum, Ono day while 1 was guinjnl factory where the 38.5seniii guns were being assembled,. with other oonrespomleutsfM countries, I was told by a Kn tor that the future enud

iliopo guns depended upon 4 turn of tho Routs'll,la„<l. AM Deutschland made two trips bring sufficient valuableomi terials to keep the Krupp 1 pled for more th in a IWniul most. Tho German people 1 informed that the DeutcM owned and controlled bv Kriq Lohmann who was provident, man Ocean Navigation Co., i dummy, posed a* tho origitM submarine idea. As a niat<!<ir/ had nothing.to do with tliei building of the Deutschland. German Lloyd Co., which is 1 most entirely by Knqip, ira another dummy. Thosedd appointed as much for lb public ac to deceive tlie people. After the R/Hitrehland id trip and returned. I wcnttji up tlie mouth of the Wosorii That night I saw fch • uiemM crow coming from a dinner at tlia lis cafe. The next day them reported personally to I intelligence department 0! miralty in Berlin. They a .ings and reports oil Amend outside. Baltimore for tiieiw Kiibmairines, including the sea in case war cable, and it won siblo for Germany to j-endsuU the United States lor offfl poses. Germany expects America over here, unless 1 happens that .she < annotgd marines out of t!m North $ German submarine appeared off Baltimore, New York, Xfl Norfolk, or Boston, armed 1 cannon and several torpedo* make it very unooinfortatfel as far as United States sliid corned. The Bremen is W. Dired aJ Heinicken, of the Nord Lloyd, declared in Berlin to I asked him that he believedtj was lost in storm off the id land. Tlie Doutsehlnnd ajii were both escorted in the M naval submarines. Heinidfl Bremen encountered a so«* and, according to all indid lost. What happened u, tk land no one seemrd tn know. January the Berlin papers I that tho merchant mi lunar? carry mail to the United 8 that mail for the next ship.? the Deutschland, had to l* oll before January 20. When J was in Paris Ij w lucre the Deutschland *'*] know. The official who ada “ Don’t he surprised if ! ® Navy captured it. w later conl'itnied this. t ,u * whether accurate n;i>ort«J icivocl until the English L" 1 ready to make announce** English have captured the** Krupp st:il has four other* that the United States is it Germany, those submarine* 1 sent there as nierelmnt shl* however, can easily hud or * the German navy for m*PW submarines operating in off the American or Arr** They cun be made to ho'd plies. By use of sueli A'J cruising submarines could Atlantic for months witho" 1 to their liaise at HeliS 0 ® helmshaven. , A