THE EMDEN'S CAPTURE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1323, 12 November 1914, Page 3

THE EMDEN'S CAPTURE.

Messages received at the NavyOffice point to the Emden’s capture as the result of a clever piece of naval strategy. During tbe early part of the war the Cocos cable station was well guarded, and the Emden was aware of tbe fact. A few weeks ago the guardship disappeared, and the operators feared a raid, realising that their wireless station, with its six hundred-mile radius, communicating with Perth and Singapore, must-be a thorn in the Emden’s side. When the raider appeared the operators at once recognised her. The staff watched the fight from the shore. Mr H. H. Rowley, of New Zealand, was a member of tbe staff.

Tbe Admiralty announces that with the exception of the German aquadron off Chile, the whole of the Pacific and Indian Oceans are now clear.

The Eastern Extension Company states that the company’s doctor has returned from Keeling Island. He reports that the Emden’s captain was not wounded. The prisoners include the Kaiser’s nephew, who is also uninjured. About .two hundred were killed and thirty ol the wounded were taken off the Emdeu, while some of the others, remaining at Keeling Island, will be picked up by a ship returning later from the Cocos.

Nothing has been seen of the schooner Ayesha, but the island will be visited frequently while she is at large. The Sydney sank the Emden’s collier, which was flooded prior to the. capture.