ttom
of the channel for a day and a night while the men enjoyed themselves
with a phonograph and rousing German songs. When their enemies thinned
out to some extent the submarine started again on her way and headed
directly for Baltimore, which she reached without special incident.

The _Deutschland_ immediately received the name of supersubmarine.
Some thousand tons of dyes and other valuable products filled her
hold. They were reported to be worth $1,000,000. The vessel was able
to make twelve knots an hour on the surface and about seven knots when
submerged. She traveled most of the way across on the surface, being
under water about one-third of the time. In addition to her valuable
cargo, she brought a special message from Kaiser Wilhelm to the
president.

No other submarine, so far as known, had made a trip of such distance
as the _Deutschland_ up to that time. Longer voyages have been
accredited to several British submarines, but they were either made
with a convoy or broken by stops enroute. Soon after the beginning of
the war, several Australian submarines journeyed from their far-away
home ports to the Dardanelles, traveling 13,000 miles. They called at
various points in the two Americas. Submarines built in America and
assembled in Canada proceeded from Newfoundland to Liverpool before
the _Deutschland_ crossed the Atlantic, but they had another ship as
convoy.

The _Sultan Selim_ and the _Midullu_ clashed with Russian ships in the
Black Sea, July 11, 1916, sinking four merchant vessels. They also
bombarded harbor works on the Caucasian Coast near Puab. Both
attacking vessels made their escape without injury.

Vienna reported on the same day the sinking of five British patrol
boats in the Otranto Road, between Italy and Albania, by the cruiser
_Novara_. Only nine men were saved.

Seaham Harbor, a small coal port near Sunderland, on the British
Channel coast, was shelled by a submarine the night of July 11, 1916.
Thirty rounds of shrapnel started several fires and caused the death
of one woman. Berlin also claimed the sinking of a British auxiliary
cruiser of 7,000 tons and three patrol vessels on the night of that
day. The statement was never denied in London, and no details were
made public as to the fate of the crews.

The Italian destroyer _Impetuoso_ was torpedoed in the Adriatic, July
16, 1916, with a loss of 125 lives.

In retaliation for Turkish attacks upon her hospital ships, Russia
announce