The Washington herald., 1914-11-22

their trenches by the searchliEhts
glare.
The other side sends out its men.
There Is a strange silence. and they
come upon deserted trenches. The
! light shifts forward again TO guide the
cannon fire as they rake the trenches
and shelter TO which the enemy has re-
tired. Again there IS a charge. which
dies away as those before II did. Again
the treaChes are abandoned: then
again. perhaps a line OF trenches will
be recovered by a tremendous effort
and upon 1t the British and French ar
tillery will rain death and destruction.
so the battle goes on; every yard OF
ground IS won with tremendous effort
and lost at appalling cost"
Too Late!
in her home OF general mourning,
Germany has scarcely one home un-
touched by war;" writes a correspond
ent Il heard of one story OF gripping
Stroyed during the war the Emden sunk
twenty. This small protected cruiser
raised havoc with the British shipping
in the Indian ocean and for a long time
eiuded all the warships sent to sink
her. The vessels destroyed by the En-
den had a total value Of about $4,000
900. exclusive OF their cargoes. Their
tonnage totaled GL6S3.
The Emden began her activities on
Aug. s. when she sank the steamship
City OF Winchester in the Indian
ocean," said one English newspaper.
Five days later she made a dash into
the bay OF Bengal and destroyed two
British ships. By Sept. 13 she had sent
two more British merchantmen to the
bottom.
"On Sept IA the Emden went out into
the Indian ocean again and there sank
three British ships in one day. BY
Sept 20 she had sunk a collier. a dredge
and a steamship. On Sept. % she bonn
barded the city OF Madras. but slipped
away when the forts replied to her fire.
Two vessels were sunk by her on Sept.
IS, and another one the next day Since
then she has sunk five steamships and
4 dredge and captured a steamship.
British cruisers have done their best
10 sink the Emden, but she has always
eluded them. She has a maximum
speed Of 81 knots and has been able to
run down the merchantmen and escape
the slower cruisers"
Only once before her final doom over
took her did the British cruisers
come near enough to endanger her
liberty. That was on Oct. Is. when the
Emden was off Sumatra with the Ham
steamship Markoman-
lia, her collier. The Emden did not
stop to fight, but used her speed in get
ing away. The British cruiser there
lpon sank the collier. This was as near
Is the Emden ever was to having her
activities ended.
The Berliner Lokal AnZeiger Of Oct.
praised Captain Won Muller. COM
nander Of the Emden. as the De Wet |
II the Sea-"
In no sea war OF ancient or modern |
history has a hostile ship followed the |
actics Of the guerrilla leader on land |
namely, to live Off booty and to let |
prisoners go free" said the Anzeiger.
The very successes Of the Emden |
make 1t hard to locate her. In that ef- |
ort 1t will avail nothing to pursue sus- |
'ected colliers; the Emden can get her |
'oal for nothing. She takes, to be sure. |
IS much as she can carry.
We rule the sea- but not every |
quare mile Of the sea We utilize our
leadership on the sea in order to in
ure the import of foodstuffs and raw |
as well as for continuous
mobilization"
WALTON WILLIAMS. ]