On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 17, 21 January 1915, Page 5

On the Sea

ECHO OF THE EMDEN. CREW'S GOOD TIME IN THE INDIAN OCEAN. . RECENT VIEW OF THE WRECK. [lTnttud Pkkm Association.] Sydney, January 31. The officers of the steamer, Clan Graham, from Mauritius, report that while there news was received that the Emden had paid a visit to the island of Diego Garcia. The islanders did not know war had broken out and Captain Von Mueller kept the news in the dark. He and the crew were loyally entertained, and they induced the natives by liberal pay to careen and clean the cruiser. On departing - the captain undertook to deliver the Islanders' mail, which he transferred to one of the intercepted steamers. (Diego Garcia is a British isle and coaling station in the Indian Ocean, where there is a fine harbor. It is the largest of the Chagos Group, which is administered from Mauritius). The Osterley, while en route to Australia, passed close to the coast of Coeos Island. It was noticed that the wrecked Emden was still on the rocks, being described as a twisted mass of steel, with two nine-pounders looming from the stern.

ITALIAN SHIP MINED AT POLA. WHOLE CREW LOST. (Received 9.30 a.m.) Rome, January 20. The Italian merchantship Varose struck an Austrian mine at Pola, and the whole crew were lost. MINE IN THE SCHELDT. DUTCH MOTOR WAR SLOOP BLOWN UP. (Received 10 a.m.) Amsterdam, January 20. A Dutch motor war sloop was blown up by a mine in the Scheldt and five were killed.