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DESCRIBES TRIP OF SUBMARINE. Paul Koenig Gives Graphic Account of German IXeutscIUand. Admiral Hanson, commander of the Danish navy, in a preface in the Danish edition of Captain Paul Koenig's book describing the voyage of the U-boat liner, Deutschland, says: "This book will always maintain a prominent place because it is the record of a triumph of naval construction and seamanship, both of which seem to be the realization of the most audacious version of Jules Verne. "This peaceful voyage has won deserved recognition the world over and and the printed record of its achievement is bound to find grateful read ers everywhere." How the merchant submarine Deutschland dived likev a plummet and chased bow-on to the floor of the ocean, then stood on her head whirling dizzily while a furious storm lashed the surface and a British de strover scoured the sea in search of lier prey, is narrated in graphic detail by the U-boat's commander. Captain Paul Koenig, in the following article. The adventures of the first undersea merchantman have formed the subject of a book written by her intrepid commander, one of the chapters of which is herewith reproduced. We were early to learn the impor tance of test submersions and to find j out how infinitely necessary it is to have the great, heavy boat firmly in hand, with a keen and constant eye on all the infinitesimal details. I had decided that in the following night, between the darkest hours, between 1 and 11 o'clock, we would travel submerged with the "E" engines. In the dusk of a long summer day we plunged downward; there was only little' wind, but the sea surged high, a sure sign that within a few hours the wind would, grow into a storm. About 2 o'clock I gave orders to rise. As the boat rose to the surface its movements became wilder and j wilder, which proved to me that the storm had come and with it a still j higher sea. Occassionallv we made veritable leaps, but we calmly blew out our "tanks" and got to the surface in a quite orderly manner. As we reached periscope depth, I j tried to look around, but it was still' almost impossible to see anything,' for every second or so the lanky j weeds would cut into thick water mountains. Then, too, there was the dawn which made the waves appear | even more uncanny and bigger; through the periscope as they rolled,' on with their crushing force. Then we came completely up to the surface and I mounted the conning tower to get a correct view of the: wildly dancing sea. Fine weather this was! All around us, in the misty dawn, was a witch's cauldron of wavebergs,! with foaming crowns, toys of thej wind, which blew off their waterdust i and sent it sizzling through the air. The boat worked hard; it was a tough tussle. Frequently, nutshell j that she was, she had to give way before the all-powerful element. The whole deck was flooded, of course. Every minute the sea dashed against the tower and, its force broken, prickled past me in a dense sprayrain. I clung to the rim of the "bathtub" and searched the horizon ?a curious horizon it was, a mass of water mountains moving stepwise in and out one another. I was just about to give orders to put on the oil engines?alas! What was that? Ponnerwetter, a Destroyer. /aires are singing in all keys. I stand with tightly squeezed lips, gaze through the conning tower and ook out over the raging sea all about us, feverishly looking for the first sign of going deeper. But I still see our deck: again and again a wave rakes us upwards. We have not another moment to lose. '"Dive deeper." is my next command, and "Both engines extreme power ahead!" The whole boat trembles and shakes under the increased engine pressure and makes a couple of real jumps; it literally staggers in the wild sea?will it not go down soon? With a sudden jerk the Deutschland darts down below the wave-tide, and now, bending her bow lower and lower, she rapidly descends into the depths. We Have Arrived. We have not yet realized our new situation. There is a crash; we are hurled to the floor, and everything that is not compact or nailed down is thrown into a wild pele-mele. Recovering from the shock, we find ourselves in the most extraordinary positions; we look at one another, and for a moment there is sullen silence. Then the first officer, Krapohl, says quite dryly; "Well, so we have arrived." That broke up the abominable tension. We all had become quite pale. And tried to find ourselves. What had happened? Why this unnatural bending of the boat? And why", did the engines above us rage so terrifically that the whole vessel roared? But before any of us could really regain his perspective, our little Klees. the chief engineer, had darted up from his crouching position and with the quickness or ngntnmg had jerked the engine telegraph around to "halt." Suddenly there was a deep silence. Slowly we gathered our limbs and our minds together and began to ponder what had happened. Stood on Head. The boat had bent forward in an angle of thirty-six degrees and stood on its head, as it were; its bow was on the sea's bottom and its aft was violently swinging back and forth. The manometer showed a depth of about fifteen meters. I quickly realized our situation; it was nothing less than comfortable. According to the map, the depth here was thirty-one meters; with the steep position of the long boat the stern was bound to rise a considerable distance out of the water, and thus could offer a lovely target for hostile destroyers. As long as the engines worked there was this added danger. When a "volley of waves" passed over us, the screws presumably whipped partly into the air and increased our attractiveness by wild spouts and foam whirls. This Chief Engineer Klees had immediately realized, owing to the raging jerks of the motors, and with his Dresence of mind he had averted the That dark stripe over there, wasn't that a smoke flag? But it's already gone, hidden behind the back of a rising wave, rising into the dawn-gray sky. I wraited and stared through the glass till my eyes ached. There it was again; it was a dark smoke-flag?and there, look! a mast top, thin as a needle, but I have it in my glass, and nov, now I bore my eyes into the glass. What is it that comes out of the veil of waves, that dark thing over there?the smoke above it, four low funnels. Donnerwetter, it's a destroyer! * With one leap I am back in the turret, have closed the tower hatch. "Alarm!"?"submerge q,uickly"? "fluten"?"depth rudder!"?"go to twenty meters." The commands followed one another as in a breath. But their exe cution! With this sea to submerge headlong is, according to all experiences, sheer insanity. But what will I do? The destroyer might have seen us already. Down we must, and in as big a hurry as possible. Below me. in the "zentrale," the men are working in feverish, noiseless haste. The rapid-airing vents are opened; the compressed air hisses from the tanks; the submerging greatest danger at least. Nevertheless, we had designated our position by a peculiar buoy, and we expected momentarily to hear the crashing blow of a shell in the stern, which was still hovering overhead. But everywhere remained quiet. The screw could no longer betray us; also, it probably was still too dark up there and the destroyer perhaps had enough of its own troubles in the wild sea. It will be easily understood that we, nevertheless, tried to extricate ourselves from this "bloedsinnig" position. As the boat had remained entirely intact and had stood the terrific blow without any damage, all further operations proceeded strictly according to programme. The aft tanks, which had not been entirely emptied of air, were flooded and thus we gradually got the boat back into a more reasonable position. But this does not mean th^t the Duetschland promptly returned to her horizontal bearings; indeed, she had poked her nose too deep into the dirt to make this possible in a hurry. But now we were at least fully submerged and had a chance to go calmly to work. Stable. The furthermost ballast tanks were relieved of part of their water, and subsequently we maneuvered around with the "trim-tanks" until the prow got loose from the ground. Thereupon we began to "swim up," but were promptly compelled to "trim back" in order to counteract the immediate tendency toward swinging on the part of the vessel's aft, which had become too heavy. After a while the equilibrium of weight had been re-established and the Deutschland was once more firmly in my hands. Xow there was time to consider what it was that could case the sudden "bucking" of our usually so well behaved boat. There must have been a combination of all sorts of causes. Aside from the fact that only in the most extraordinary and rare cases it is possible for a big boat to sub(Continued on page 3, column 2) TAX NOTICE. The treasurer's office will be open for the collection of State, county, school and all other taxes from the 15th day of October. 1916, until the 15th day of March, 1917, inclusive. From the first day of January, 1917, until the J 1st day of January, 1917. a penalty of one per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st day of February, 1917, a j penalty of 2 per cent, will be added ' to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st day of March, 1917, until the loth day of March, 1917, a penalty of 7 per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. THE LEVY. For State purposes 6 1-2 mills For county purposes 7 mills Constitutional school tax 3 mills Total 14 1-2 mills SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVIES. Bamberg, No. 14 9 mills Binnakers, No. 12 3 mills Buford's Bridge, No. 7 2 mills Clear Pond, No. 19 2 mills Colston, No. 18 4 mills Denmark. No. 21 6 1-2 mills Ehrhardt, No. 22 9 mills Fishpond, No. 5 2 mills Govan, No. 11 4 mills Hutto, No. 6 2 mills Hampton, No. 3 2 mills Heyward, No. 24 2 mills Hopewell, No. 1 3 mills Hunter's Chapel, No. 16 8 mills Lees, No. 23 4 mills Midway, No. 2 2 mills Oak Grove. No. 20 4 mills Olar, No. 8 9 mills St. John's, No. 10 2 mills Salem, No. 9 4 mills Three Mile, No. 4 2 mills uounueu uii me west uj icuius Henry Smith, on the North by lands now or formerly of Adaline Smitn, South by lands of Page and Ehrhardt, East by lands formerly of H. W. Rice. ?ALSO? All that certain tract of land known as the W. B. 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