EMDEN'S LAST RAID.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15766, 14 November 1914, Page 8

EMDEN'S LAST RAID.

ENEMY'S GOOD mm, CORRESPONDENT'S ACCOUNT (Received November 11, 2 a.m.) London, November 13, A message to the Daily Chronicle from a correspondent in the Cocoa Islands states that the telegraph staff was advised from Singapore that a German cruiser had been do spatched to the islands. The beach was then regularly patrolled, "a four-funnelled cruiser steamed- at full speed to the entrance of tin lagoon at six o'clock on Monday morning. Its flag was not flying. Its fourth funnel was made of painted canvas. The cruiser lowered an armoured launch and two boats, with three officers and 40 men, with i Maxims The operators continued to send messages until the Germans rushed into the cable station. They placed the operators under an armed guard while they smashed the instruments. There was no brutality or pillaging. Meanwhile, the crew of the launch grappled f or the cable and endeavoured to cut it, but failed. At nine o'clock the Emden sounded its siren. The landing .party dashed to the boats but the Emden got under way in> mediately the Sydney appeared on the horizon.

After firing a shot at the Sydney at 3700 yds, the Emden steamed north. For a time the Emden's firing was excellent. That of the Sydney was erratic, owing to the range-finder being put out of action by one of only two German shots which got home. The British gunners soon overcame the diflj. culty, and shot away two of the Emden's, funnels. Thus blazing away, both cruisers disappeared. The Emden was afire aft.