Prior to this, section of the Imperial Fleet sent to the South Beas, proceeded in the direction of the Straits Settlements, and became faged in ce-operation with he British Fleet.
In the early part of September, however, as the German cruiser Emden appeared in the Indian Ocean, and many of the British merchantmen suffered losses at her hands, we increased the strength of the section which had been despatched to these regions in order to afford better protection to the army transports of Great Britain. We further increased the strength of that section by sending an additional force under the command of Vice-Admiral Tochinai, but the Emden was destroyed by a British man-of-war off Cocos island on November 9, and the operations ended.
At the beginning of the war, the main strength of the German Squadron, as aforementioned, was in the direction of the South Seas, and a section of it was in the direction of North America and of Hawaii. The Imperial Fleet was despatched in that direction in te-visions, and by ce-operation the British Fleet, destroyed the base of the German operations by capturing the German island:
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