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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 23 September 1914, Page 5

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A GERMAN CRUISER'S DEPREDA-

TIONS

CALCUTTA, Sep. 22. The cruiser Emden, assist«d by misty weather and intercepting wireless mes-

sages, sank between the 10th and 14th

September two colliers, two empty steamers, and the steamer Diplomat, with a cargo worth £350,000, including 40,000 packages of tea. All the captured crews were transferred to the Kahanga, which was sailing for America. vEbe pabanga arrived at Calcutta on the 16th.

A British warship is pursuing the Emden, which, escaped to the southward. All sailings in the Bay of Bengal have been temporarily cancelled.

The Emden has caused British owners and underwriters a loss of threequarters of a million. Her people treated the crews well.

CAPETOWN, Sep. 22. Official.—A revised, list of H.M.S. Pegasus' casualties give's 25 killed, 52 wounded, and 10 missing.