The farmer and mechanic., 1915-06-22
EMDEN MEN GET
WARM WELCOME
Wanderers From the German
Cruiser Greeted With En-
thuSiaSm,

trepid survivors Of the Emden crew
ended their long and perilous wander
lngs over the and through the
desert and reported once more TO
| their superior naval officers for duty
| is described in a dispatch from Con-
stanunople, published in the Ber-
| liner Tageblatt of May IS just receiv-
/ ed in this country. The account writ
ten by Dr. Emil Ludwig. the special
| correspondent whom the paper had
sent to meet the Emden men as they
| emerged from the desert and filed
under date of May "a. reads:
Now the Emden men have at last
reached Europe The many feasts
| which the German colonies and the
| Turkish authorities insisted on pre-
| pairing for the heroes on their way
| through Asia Minor, in Adana, Tars-
sus, Bosanti. konia, and Eskishehir
have improved the condition of the
crew, half of whom are Sill suffering
from malaria or its consequences The
officers, to be sure, pressed forward.
When the train today drew near 10
Constantinople, the cordialty and en-
thusiasm waxed to a veritable Whit
, sunude fraternizing with the Turks.
The Chief Mayors delivered ad-
dresses at every station or children
reclted poems amid the Turkish
2 sounds of which only the words AL
laman lGermans) and "Emden'
e were inteiligible to us. one little child
S in German. The flags were wreathed
r with laurel, and prettily dressed little
n | children brought up to the crew great
S baskets full of cherries and the first
r | Strawberries; but the eyes of the sail
OrS hung. more fOndly upon beer and
Il tobacco, which they received in large
t quantities. Even at those stations
IS where the train whiZZed past without
n stopping, Oriental applause floated up
O to us, and everywhere stood honorary
8 reception committees.
% When we at last drew near Haidar-
: PaSha, the final station of the rail-
It road on the Asiatic side, the railway
le station seemed to be transformed into
as a festive hall. Lieut.. Capt Won Mucke
r ordered his men, who had only now
transformed themselves again into
a blue lads, since navy uniforms had
a. been sent to them on the way, to step
IN up, and he led them up to a group
Te of navy officers who, with Admiral
lis SouchOn at their head, remained
ii quietly standing.
tn Then this young "triumphator "
oit who even a moment ago stood amid
a. cheers and a shower of acacia bios
an SONS bowling and shaking hands or
to the platform, the man who for four.
ly teen days has been the one mar
on wherever stopped, now steps up ir
e- military order to the little Admra
tie and lowers his sword:
ng beg to report most obediently
ay Herr Admiral. landing corps Of The
Of Emden, "A men, 4 officers. / surgeon
he Admiral Souchon received the an
nouncement just as a daily report
* Only then did he press the Lieutenan
Ter Captains hand. bid him welcome
re- and marched along the front Of tn
ng company.
No sooner had the column with tn
AS Emden flag appeared at the entranc
ne Of the station than there burst from
nts 10000 throats a rousing "Hurra h =
yes On torpedo boat that had been wait
ate ing for them the crew crossed tn
Bosporus, in which all ships ha
decked themselves with flags. an,
. landed on the wide park-like point o
the seragliO. There. surrounded b
zen new countless crowds were the Min
lister Enver Pascha and Talaat Bey
the German Ambassador, Freiher
- Won Wangenheim, and Marshal vo
~ der COLI PaSha, the combined nav
corps of officers, General Bronsart vo
o,~ Schellendorf all awaiting their al
~: | rival.
10 Amid the strains of the German ia
&c tional anthem, played by the Turks
. as military band, Lieut.. Capt. Won Muck'
7 tne together with the War Minister. Enve
AN a. Pasha paced along the long Germa
% and Turkish fronts. Then he led fort
u' his "A men, and marched, amid ne'
ing ovations, all through Stamboul. acros
IA, the great bridge to Galata, to the doc
ain If his little hand nov prown eni,
IN. amid the cheers of ByZa ntium, 0
IN which he and his officers had neve
nat set foot before-always in the clea
ncn blue and sunlight of this war-heav
i'm Whitsuntide dav
i'm Rut nothing stirred mo moro door
her lv on the whole tourney than that col
get official renort Of the man who was h.
ing celebrated, before his Admira
my and I saw in that lowered sword poiI
op- the symbol Of the old and incorrup
Of ible Prussian spirit.
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