A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard
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it would be more profit of the bases of them really, since they was able
as Tsingtau is not treated. On to run away from the Japanese threat Von
Spee had vaporized eastwards through the Pacific but two of his
cruisers, the Königsberg and the Emdens were freed for helping the
German in East Africa and to make raids British commerce in the Indian
Ocean. 20 September the Königsberg sank H.M.S. Pegasus to Zanzibar,
but he/she didn't succeed in being of a lot of assistance in the projected attack on Mombasa,
and you/he/she was bottled above to the moment in the River of Rufigi. The Emden under
Heads Müller it was successful. In all September and October
she frequented the coasts of India and he/she harried British work, while putting
shots to an oil-reservoir to Madras, while torpedoing a Russian cruiser and a
French destroyer in the roadstead of Penang, and capturing in all some
seventeen merchant British. However, she had lost her really
threatening of companion approximately 25 October and a raid on the Cocos or
Islands that turn upside-down 9 November were interrupted by the arrival of H.M.S.
Sydney that had been warned from without threads on his/her way from Australia.
In less than two hours the Sydney is 6-in. guns had beaten the Emden
asunder, and with only 18 accidents you/he/she had killed or you/he/she had hurt 230 of
the enemy. Müller became a prisoner of honourable of war; he had it tried
him the most skilled of German captains and the best of the German
gentlemen.
In the meantime Von Spee had earned the American and Southern coast and you/he/she had done
him in house in his/her friendly harbors and islands. He had with him two
sister's cruisers, the Scharnhorsts and the Gneisenaus, each of 11,400
tons and an armament of the guns of eight 8.2-thumb and three smaller
cruisers, the Dresden, Leipzig and Nürnberg each on the ransom of
the Emden, from 3200 to 3540 tons and bringing the guns of ten 4.1-thumb;
none of them had a speed less that 22 knots. To protect the South
Pacific work that the British Government had to August expeditious Admiral