The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-01-31
OCEAN RAIDERS
TERROR TO SHIPS
Latest German Rover Recalls
Exploits OF Emd0n and Others.
ESCAPED BRITISH BLOCKADE

Moewe and Karlsruhe Returned to Ger
many After Their Exploits-Prinz
Eitel Friedrich informed at Hampton
Roads-Gallsnt Commander of EN-
den Won Admiration Of World.
The raids on allied commerce by the
mysterious German sea rover which
has already claimed a score Of victims
aud whose activities have caused O
loss to Germany's enemies estimated
By some as $4,000, 900 recall the 9th
or famous commerce raiders which es.
capped the vigilance of the British
blockade and brought terror to mari
ners.
The Emden and the Moewe, the
Prinz Eitel Friedrich and the Karls
ruhe-these are names which Germany
treasures, TO which she thrills as proud
to the mention of the Pelican, the Gold
en- Hind or the Revenge.
Raiders all, buccaneers Of the time
of quick firers and turbine engines.
this quartet has gained the praise and
admiration OF friend and fair minded
foe alike. For mouths each of these
four light, swift vessels played a lone
hand against the greatest navy of the
world. For months each was harried
and chased from sea to sea. Dodging
and hiding, matching craft and daring
against force, they wrought terrific
damage to the merchant commerce Of
the allied nations before their work
was through.
War Enemies Admiration.
First in order by time and by glory
Is the Emden. Her captain, Won Null
Ter, is the Drake and the Grenville of
the German navy rolled into one. When
war began the cruiser was In the In
dian ocean. In the three months before
her destruction she harmed England
more than any other craft that few
the German dag has been able to do I'm
this struggle.
The little cruiser slipped into the har
Dor OF Madras and bombarded the city.
firing oil wells, wrecking much gov
eminent property ana spreading a pan.
ic among the inhabitants. Then she
was gone. and while the black oil
smoke rolled up behind her she duck.
ed like a rabbit across the Indian
oeean
Ran Into Harbor.
Then came the most daring feat of
her whole wonderful career. With an
extra funnel made from cloth she came
blithely into the harbor of Penang one
day. where three French torpedo boats
and a Russian cruiser lay Mt anchor.
So magniicently audaclous was her
action that the ships OF her enemies
never knew what had happened un
Ill the torpedo boat Mousquet was
sunk, the cruiser Jemtchug was sink
ing and the Emden had gone.
At last the end came. Trapped at
the Cocos islands. i'm the south Of the
Indian ocean. the Emden did not sur
render. She came out Of her hiding
place TO meet the more powerful cruis
or Sydney with every gun blazing. She
went down with them still flaming, but
before she died she had accounted for
twenty-five merchant ships that the
allies could i'll afford to lose.
The Karlsruhe followed her. She was
such another vessel as the Emden. light
and fast, with a clever, chivalrous com
mander. In the fall of 1914 she made
the south Atlantic a place of terror TO
allied vessels. She sank thirteen, and
when her work was done she slipped
back to the channel. ran the blockade
and returned to kiel.
Two Raiders Busy.
From the Karlsruhe until the last
few weeks no German ship of war had
sneaked through the steel ring that In
closes the North sea. but two ships.
merchant vessels in appearance and
raiders by virtue of the guns they car
ried hidden. have gained the open sea
and have buried many vessels OF Eng
land and France there.
OF these the Moewe was the more
successful. She trailed up and down
the Brazilian coast for months In the
fall OF 1915 and sank fifteen vessels be.
fore she turned her PROV homeward
Count 0 Dohna-Schlodien, her com
mander, brought her back to the Ger.
man base with 100000 marks i'm gold
In her hold, with four British officers
and t~wcnty-nine sailors and marines
and l66 noncombatants.
The Prinz Eitel Friedrich had a
longer but less spectacular career. She
left Tsingtau at the outbreak of wal
and arrived at Hampton Roads on
March 10. 1915. She had accounted
for several vessels on her long journey
She lodged the allied war craft that
waited outside and entered the barber.
but the watch was so strict that she
dared not leave again. Her commander.
Captain Thierichens. interned her.
Four O'Clock Children.
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