EMDEN STILL PREYING ON BRITISH SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15747, 23 October 1914, Page 5

EMDEN STILL PREYING ON BRITISH SHIPPING.

FOUR STEAMERS SUNK IN INDIAN WATERS.

ITALIAN CAPTAIN GIVES TIMELY WARNING TO OTHERS. London-, October 21. Lloyds' agent at Colombo reports that the German cruiser Emden sank three British steamcrs-the Chilka, Troilus, Ben Mohr, and Clan Grant-also the dredge Pourabbel, bound fur Tasmania, and captured the steamer Exford, 150 miles south-west of Cochin, on the south-west coast of India. Captain Miacapello, of the Italian steamer Loredano warned and thereby saved several British vessels from the Emden in the Bay of Bengal. Lord Claude Carmichael, of Madras, presented a gold watch to Captain Miacapello and rewarded the crew. The Chilka, owned by the British India Steam Navigation Company was built at Glasgow in 1902. She has a tonnage of 3952. ' _ The Troilus (7562 tons) was launched only this vear at Newcastle v he is owned by the Ocean Steamship Company, Ltd. (the Blue Funnel Lino. '' " The Ben Mohr (4806 tons) was built in 1912 at Greenock. She is „v,,ed by VV. lnomson and Company, of Leith. The Clan Grant (3948 tons) is a ship well-known to Auckland, haying several times called for cargoes of wool for London and Dunkirk. She is owned by Layzer Irvine and Company, of Glasgow. The dredger Pourabbel was the property of the Tasmania!, Marine Board and was intended to bo utilised for harbour improvement works at Launceston. It was built m Glasgow at a cost of over £40.000, and was not insured against war risks. " The Exford (4542 tons) is owned by the Tatem Steam Navigation Company, Ltd., of Cardiff. fc The Loredano (4076 tons) is owned by the Venetian Steamship Company. According to reliable report, received up to date the Emden, since the outbreak of the war has sunk 12 British vessels. Eight of the vessels represented a tonnage of 39,803. After having been "lost" for six weeks, the Emden appeared in the Bay of Bengal at the beginning of September, and from September 10 to 14 she captured six British ships, of which five were sunk and on, sent to Calcutta wrth the crews. The vessels sunk included the Ribera (3500 tons* and the Kin-* Lud (3650 tT\\ A few days later came the announcement (hat the Clan .Mathieson (4775 tons) had been sunk, and also the steamer Diplomat 17613 ton,! the inter with a cargo valued at £250,000. A message from London on September 22 stated that up to that date the Emden has cost British owners end underwriters a loss o £750,000. On September 23 the Emden appeared off Madras and fired nine shells into the town, igniting some oil works.