FLASHBACK.
“Achilles,” Auckland, writes:— A violent argument exists amongst several of us as to who sunk the German cruiser Emden in the last war. What ship encountered her and was the C.E.R.A. a Mr. L. A. Sayer? Answer: The Emden lot of trouble in the first few months of the last war. Stationed out in the Far East, she made. for home on the war’s outbreak, under Captain von Muller, and sunk many ships, including colliers whose cargo she took, while cruisers everywhere searched for her. With the aid of a dummy funnel, however, she escaped them. ' At last she was' caught in the Cocos Islands by the Australian cruiser H.M.S. Sydney. Alfter a sixhour battle the Emden, a blazing wreck, was run ashore. As for her C.E.R.A. (Chief Engine Room Artificer, we imagine), we can’t help you. Perhaps some survivor can. • ***** . <‘
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Camp News, Volume 1, Issue 36, 16 August 1940, Page 3
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