New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-18
Three Other German Com
MERGE Destroyers Were
Busy Early in the War
TWO RAN BLOCKADE;
ONE is HERE NOW
Moewe and Karlsruhe Re
turned After Preying
on Allied Ships

The Emden and the Moewe, the Prinz
/ Eitel Friedrich and the Karlsruhe
( these are names which Germany treas
ures, TO which she thrills as proudly
as the Englishman OF centuries ago to
the mention Of the Pelican, the Golden
Hind or the Revenge.
/ Raiders all, buccaneers Of the time OF
quick firers and turbine engines, this
quartet has gained the praise and ad-
miration Of friend and fair-minded foe
alike. For months each of these four
light, swift vessels played 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.
Only once did the war craft OF Brit
tain revenge themselves upon the cum
ming, courageous, gallant foe. The
cruiser Sydney sank the Emden on
Cocos Island on November 10, 1914.
Two Vessels Returned
Two other commerce destroyers, after
outwitting the Allies on the open sea,
slipped through the supposedly impen-
etrable blockade and returned to Ger
many with their booty. The fourth
the Prinz Eitel Friedrich, hurried into
Hampton Roads and is interned in
United States waters.
First in order by time and by glory
ia the Emden. Her captain, Won Muller
is the Drake and the Grenville OF the
German navy rolled into one. When
war began the cruiser was in the Indian
Ocean. In the three months before her
destruction she harmed England more
than any other craft that few the Ger
man flag has been able to do in this
struggle. - A.
The little cruiser slipped into the
harbor of Madras and bombarded the
city, firing oil wells, wrecklng much
government property and spreading
panic among the inhabitants. Ihen she
was gone. and while the black oil
! smoke rolled up behind her she ducked
| like q rabbit across the Indian Ocean.
But unlike the rabbit, she paused again
and again to kill. Ship after ship she
sent TO the bottom, but never before
Won Muller had seen that all OF their
crews had been saved.
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 Russia cruiser lay at anchor.
So msgnifcently audacious was her
/ action that the ships of her enemies
never knew what had happened until
/ the torpedo beat Mousquet was sunk.
/ the cruiser Jen,tchug was sinking and
/ the Emden had gone.
/ At last the end came. Trapped at
/ the Cocos Islands, in the south Of the
! Indian Ocean, the Emden did rot sur
! render. She came out of her hiding
place TO meet the more powerful
cruiser Sydney with every gun blazing.
She weDS down with them still fam
] ks
counted 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 q clever, chiyal-
rous commander In the fall of 1914
she made the South Atlantic place Of
terror of Allied vessels. She sank
thirteen, and when her work cts 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
snesked through the steel ring that
incloses the North Sea, but two ships,
merchant vessels in appearance and
raiders by virtue Of the guns they car
red hidden, have gained the open sea-
and have buried many vessels of Eng
land and France there.
or 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
before she turned her prov home
ward. Count Won Dolma-Schloden, her
commander, brought her back to the
German base with 100000 marks in
gold in her hold, with four British
officers and twenty-nine sailors and
marines and l66 -combatsnts Of
the Allied nations.
The Prinz Eitel Friedrich had a
longer but less spectacular career. She
left Tsing-tau at the outbreak Of
war and arrived at Hampton Roads
on March 10. 1915. She had account
ed for several vessels on her long
journey, among them the American
grain schooner. William p. Frye. She
lodged the Allied war craft that wait
ed outside and entered the harbor.
but the watch was so strict that she
dared not leave again. Her command