Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-11

sent to the bottom by the German
cruiser. For three months she made
I her way at will over eastern waters,
doubtless encountering ships other
than those reported sunk which were
flying the flags of hostile countries
Owing to the suppression since the
beginning of the war of data concern
ing the movements OF merchantmen
it is impossible to obtain definite IN
formation as to what vessels are un-
accounted for The Emden's largest
guns were only Al inch. of which she
had ten Her speed OF 24.5 knots was
her greatest asset, as she had been
able to run down merchant ships with
east and then escape from larger but
slower war vessels that have pursued
her British Russian, French and
Japanese warships in the east have
been attempting for weeks to put
an end to her career
1t has been more or less of a mys-
terry to naval men how the Emden
has been able to keep at sea month
after month without running short OF
coal and supplies. Ii is assumed
however, that she has obtained suffi-
cient food and fuel from captured
ships to meet her needs. In at least
one instance, this is known to have
been done. The captain of the Bri-
fish steamer Exford, captured by the
Emden in the Indian ocean, reported
to his owners that the commander
of the Emden said that before he
sank the Exford he intended to take
on board his cruiser the 1000 tons of
steam coal with which the Exford was
laden.
The first report of the activity of the
Emblem was on Aug. when she was
said to have been sunk in action
with the Russian cruiser Askold off
Wei Hal Wei This was contradieted
few days later when word was re-
ceived that the Emblem had sunk
the steamer City of Winchester on
Aug. and steamins into the Bay of
Bengal five days later, had sent two
more British vessels. to the bottom.
Within three days she had sunk four
vessels there She was accompanied
by the Hamburg American steamer
Markomannia as a collier The Mark
omannia was sunk Aug. Is, off sum-
atra by British cruiser.
Leaving the Bay of Bengal the Emb.
den sank three British steamers In
the Indian ocean on Sept. IA On Sept
20 she appeared off Madras and she'll
ed the city, extinguishing her lights
and disappearing when the forts re-
piled. Then she reneewd her activity
in the vicinity of Ragoon. where more
British vessels fell prey to her
Again she disappeared and was not
heard from until she turned up at
Penang.
The captain of the steamer Parom
put Into sydney, N. S. W., yesterday
and reported that after the success
of the Embden at Penang she was
overtaken by a fritisher cruiser, but
being the faster ship, was able to es
cape. Two store ships accompanying
her were left behind and the British
cruiser captured one and sank the
other.
The Embden was a sister ship of
the cruiser Dresden. which participant
ed in the naval battle off the coast
OF Chile Nov. I, when the British
squadron under command of Rear Ad-
miral Sir Christopher Cradock, was
The Emblem had complement of
361. Her armament consisted of 10
Al guns, eight 5-pounders and four
machine guns. She was also equipped
with two III inch torpedo tubes. The
cruiser displaced 5000 tons. She was
3s7 feet long and had a beam of 43 Ia
feet She was laid down at Dantzig
in 1906 and completed in May, 1908.