LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27670, 28 May 1955, Page 3

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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F. Davies.—You should complain to the hotel management. W. K. Muir.—The Emden was a thirdclass cruiser which started a com-merce-raiding cruise from the Chinese port of Kiaochau just before war was declared in 1914. She sank 17 ships worth £2,000,000 in the Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean, but was caught on November 9, 1914, at Keeling Island in the Cocos group, by H.M.A.S. Sydney, driven ashore, and burnt with heavy loss. The Seeadler was a sailing ship with auxiliary engines, commanded by von Luckner. Details of her career and Count von. Luckner’s escape can be found in “The Sea Devil,” by Lowell Thomas. There is additional material about von Luckner’s escape in the scow Moa in 'Shipwrecks—New Zealand Disasters.” by C. W. N. Ingram and P. O. Wheatley (page 488). •