left centre of the photograph. The Cocos group are a British possession,
and lie in the Indian Ocean, south-west of Sumatra. Our second photograph
shows the "Emden," whose depredations have cost nearly two and a quarter
millions sterling. She was a light cruiser of 3350 tons and 25 knots
speed, carrying ten 41-inch guns. Captain Karl von Müller, the "Emden's"
Captain, who carried out his enterprises with a fine spirit of chivalry
and daring which we acknowledge, was a native of Blankenburg, in
Brunswick, and was formerly a captain in the Hansa Line. He is a prisoner,
unwounded, and keeps his sword.




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THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--37


[Illustration: THE DESTRUCTION OF THE "EMDEN" AND THE BOTTLING-UP OF THE
"KÖNIGSBERG": H.M.A.S. "SYDNEY" AND H.M.S. "CHATHAM."]

H.M.S. "Sydney" (No. 1) caught the commerce-raiding "Emden" at Keeling
Cocos Island and forced a sharp action upon her, with the result that the
German ship was driven ashore and burnt. The "Chatham" (No. 2) found the
"Königsberg," the ship, it will be recalled, which attacked the "Pegasus,"
hiding in shoal water up the Rufigi River, German East Africa, with part
of her crew entrenched on the banks. Unable to get at her, she bottled up
the "Königsberg" by sinking colliers in the only navigable channel. The
"Sydney" is a light cruiser of 5600 tons, launched, as was the "Chatham,"
in 1911. The "Chatham" was practically a sister ship of the "Sydney," but
rather smaller, displacing 5400 tons, The "Emden" was of 3650 tons; the