Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-11
CAPTAIN,
EMDEN'S VICTIM,
LAUDS GERMANS
Skipper Whose Vessel Was
Sunk by Cruiser Describes
Experiences.
SAW OTHER VESSELS SUNK
BY TERROR OF THE PACIFIC
Kaiser's Men Brave and Dar-
ing, South Orange Friends
Are Told.

Coincident with the news of the
destruction in the Far East of the
German cruiser Emden, known as
the terror of the Pacific, which had
sing,e-handed sent twenty-four ves-
sells, mostly British, to the bottom of
the sea, former Village Trustee Will
lam III. Tweddell, of South Orange,
has received an exhaustive letter
from Robert Glegg, commander of
the British transport steamer Lovat,
one of the ships sunk by the Emden.
In q graphic manner Captain Glegg
tells of the sinking of the ship of
which he was in command, and of
witnessing the destruction of three
other Eng ish vessels by the Emden.
The English captain writes of the
''pitiful sight" adding that the sound
OF the Emden's guns will ring in his
ears until his dying day. He tells of
the courtesies given the English cap
tives by the Germans. He speaks of
the captain of the Emden as being
"a brave and most daring man, cap
turing and sinking ships at his will,
while our own men slept"
The letter received by Mr. Tweddell
was dated "Peninsular & Oriental
Steamship Morea, Mediterranean Sea,
Oct. g." Captain Glegg was a close
personal friend of former Trustee
Tweddell, and was well-known in
South Orange. where he called fire.
quently at Mr.. T@eddell's residence,
237 Prospect street. For the past two
years the Lovat, of which he was
commander, has carried coolies from
Japan TO Calcutta. Prior to that the
ship carried on a China trade, maxi
ing trips between New York and
China. He visited the Tweddell home
on every trip TO New York, which
was about twice yearly.
How His Ship Was sunk.
Two years ago Mr. Tweddell's son,
Harvey l. Tweddell, and the latter's
wife and son. William w. Tweddell,
also of South Orange, made a trip
from New York to Algiers on the
Lovat
Commander Gleggs letter, in part,
follows: s..s ss.-s.... $1,000
"Changed time with yours truly.
to be unemployed, and passenger on
the well-known route, Eh? Such II.
the fortune of wari And we never
know our luck. At any rate am
well and hearty and hope to be in
business again before long.
mo doubt you saw kilograms an
nDluftCiU2 lIlf cttpLulC anu 5lIlhtIR Oh
the good ship Isoyat at the time it
happened and got nearly as big a
surprise as I did. In my case / could
hardly realize it. it was SO very sud-
den-likes girls first proposal OF
marriage.
"The story runs thus, in brief.
will send you full account in print
after 1 have given same to Douglass
Clis SOM to send as copy" to the
magazines and newspapers he writes
for.
1--WE fitted up at Calcutta to carry
Royal Field Artillery, Indian Cav
airy, ETC., and all their horses, and
sailed September 8 bound to Bombay
there to embark our troops. On Sep
tember II, at p. M, on emerging
from a rain squall, we sighted q
cruiser, which we assumed was Brit
ish, no Germans having been sus-
pected to be In the vicinity. She was
accompanied by two merchant steam
ers. / concluded she was British,
forming up a convoy which she wished
us to join, as we had no instructions
from the Indian marine to deviate
from the regular track.
"To our CONSERVATION, when we ap-
preached, we were signaled to stop
immediately Up went the German
flag to the peak and blank shot was
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