MORE ABOUT THE EDEN'S CAREER

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2322, 2 December 1914, Page 5

MORE ABOUT THE EDEN'S CAREER

THE RAID ON PENANG - (Reo. December 1, 7.20 p.m.) Sydney, December 1. Captain. Paramor, of the steamer Nigaristaii, from Penarig, states that the Einden did not fly the Japanese flag when sho raided Penarig Harbour. She entered before daylight, without a flag, and was thought to bo the British eruisor Yarmouth, until she 6teanied" close to the Russian cruiser Jemtchug. and opened fire, sinking her within ha It an hour. The Jemtchug fired several shots while settling down, but the shells went, wide, two striking separate vessels, in-' hiring the engineer of ono r . . Over two hundred of the Jemtchug's crew vera saved by boats from various vessels. The Emden flew tho German flag as she was leaving.. Tho French destroyer Mousquet was sunk in a gallant attempt to disable the Eindon as she was leaving. Twenty of the Mousquet's crow were 6aved, most- , ly by the Emden, which subsequently ' held up a British steamer and placed i them on board. • At the time of the raid the Nigaristan was lying near the Jomtchug, waiting to coal her. Tho Jemtchug was having her. boilers cleaned, nul was caught unawares. Most of the crew woro asleep. One dfficer and eighty-eight men; wero killed, while three officers and a- hundred and twenty men were wounded. The above account disclosos for the first time the identity of tho French destroyer—previously referred to in the. cable messages as a gunboat. The jlousquet was a destroyer of 300 tons, built in 1902, steaming 30.2 knots, and carrying one 9-pounder, six' .'(-pounders, am?, two torpedo tubes. Her complement wa,'', ; t\2* .-'