Nov. 12.
The fuller details now received of the destruction of the Emden put a much more agreeable light upon the ending of our gallant enemy's career than did the firet brief message. 'The impression that the Emden had accidentally run ashore and was found in this helpless position by H. M. S. Sydney. was not the kind of thing from which much glory could be' derived. It was, perhaps, hardly probable that a smart commander like Captain von Miller, accompanied as he has been by excellent navigators, would have been s0 clumsy as accidentally to run his ship ashore. But it is satisfactory that there should be no doubt on the point. Cocos Island is. a most important cable station—indeed it is curious that it should not earlier have attracted raiders—and the Emden saw a chance of doing work that would be quite as valuable as, and far less distasteful than, sinking defenceless merchantmen.—Unluckily for herself she was caught by @ commander smarter than her own. The Sydney deserves all the congratulations she will receive on her brilliant entry into the war. She has rid the seas of a notable commerce-destroyer, a ship that had done mischief out of all proportion to her size, and residents of the Far East especially have cause to be grateful to her. The simultaneous penning up of, the Kénigsberg—which, it will
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