HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REPORT.
SIX BRITISH SHIPS TAKEN
BY GERMAN CRUISER EMDEN
The High Commissioner reports under date London, September 20, 10.35 p.m.:— It is officially stated that the German cruiser Emden, after being completely lost for six weeks, appeared suddenly from the Bay of Bengal. D tiring the period frc_ September .10 to September 14 she captured six British ships, of which five were sunk and the sixth sent into Calcutta Avith the crew. The Emden is now reported at Rangoon.
The British auxiliary cruiser Carmania fought a German armed merchant cruiser, mounting eight fourinch guns. The action lasted one hour and forty minutes, when the German ship capsized and sunk.
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Northern Advocate, 22 September 1914, Page 5
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