THE EMDEN ACTION.
WOUNDED SAILORS PROGRESSING JOY IN ALLIES' TRENCHES. COLOMBO, November 26. The sailors wounded in the SydneyEmden action aro favourably. ( A story • f real grit and pluck on the part of Seaman Home is told by one of his comrades. Homo was the sightsetter of a six-inch starboard gun. He was crouched ready behind the shield of the gun when.a shell burst just behind, and killed the gunlayers and injured four out of the nine men serving the gun. Home got it badly in both legs and the shoulder. He crawled back to his seat behind the battered shield and stayed until ordered below." LONDON, November 26.
Official: An eye-witness with the British Headquarters says that the news of the destruction of the Emden caused immense satisfaction in all ranks. At one place where the opposing trenches were close, the news was passed on with comments to the enemy. As a result, the Germans fired heavily on our trenches for some tiriie.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 252, 27 November 1914, Page 8
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164THE EMDEN ACTION. Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 252, 27 November 1914, Page 8
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