September 20, 1914 
LAND AND WATER 
THE WAR BY WATER. 
By FRED T. JANE. 
ON THE HIGH SEAS GENERALLY. 
THE week, or, rather, tlie week's news, has been 
marked by a recrudescence of German corsairs — 
ships which undoubtedly hava secret bases in 
>vhich they have probably been hiding. 
Of these the most dangerous and mysterious 
is the 24-knot Emilen, which was at Kiao-Chau 
just before the waa* broke out. 
On Sept. 10th, nothing having been seen or heard of her 
in the six weeks' interval, acoompanied by the Marhomannia, 
of 3335 tons, used as a collier, she suddenly appeared in the 
Bay of Bengal, where, between Sept. 10th and 14th, she cap- 
tured six British merchant ships. Of these she sank five and 
sent tlie remaining vessel into Calcutta ■with the crews. At 
some later date sho was rcpoiied from Rangoon having made 
ever, seeking her bases is likely to approximate to the search 
for a needle iu a bundle of hay. 
There are at least ten ways by which she can return to 
the Pacific. There are at least two neutral property owners — ■ 
Dutch and American — on whom she can call for coal to take 
her to the nearest German port., and both these have scattered 
possessions. Theare axe groups of islands in each case. There 
are scores of sheltered places in which she can coal from colliera 
or other vessels sent for the purpose. We can be perfectly 
certain that in this matter of supplies everything has been 
carefully prearranged. 
Sooner or later we shall intercept and destroy the Eiiuhn, 
but till then she has aei-ious possibilities, as, for example, the 
stoppage of all outward trade from Calcutta. 
The stories of the captured who were landed at Calcutta 
I^/eatsaloravaiCahle 
/or coaling ^^H 
• German. Hli 
- Hostile 
CAROLINE ISLANDS 
8ISMARK 
ARCHIPELAGO 
NEW POMMERN 
MAP TO INBICATB THB KXTREMI DIPFICULTT OTf CATCHING THK " EUDKX " IN THE EAST IXDIAN AECinPELAaO. THE DOTS OXLT IXDICATE 
THE PBINCIFAI. ISLANDS — THESE ABE MAST OTHEBS. THE ABSOWS INDICATE ONLY HEB CHIEF POSSIBLE WAYS OF KKTUEN TO HEB BECEKT 
BASES. THE DIFFICCLTIES 0» INTEECEPTION ABB COEEESPOXDIXOLY OBVIOCS, EVEN IF NEOTBALS BE IGNOEED. 
further captures. The loss incuiTed by her first raid is esti- 
mated at something like £300,000. On Tuesday last she again 
made herself unpleasantly notorious, by dropping nine shells 
into Madras, aaid doing damage to the value of £100,000. 
Tlie attack on Neu Pommern in the Bismarck Archipelago 
began on Sept. 11th. It is probable that the Emden had been 
using the Bismarck Archipelago as a base, and being kept 
au courant from the Neu Pommern wireless station, started 
out on her marauding career just before our attack developed, 
a, career which may easily run into a million pounds before she 
is accounted for. 
The total we can bring against her of vessels of equal 
«peed or thereabouts is : — 
Eiiat Imlia Sqnarlron 
China Squadron ... 
Ditto 
Australian Fleet ... 
Ditto 
Ditto 
Daetmouth 
Kewcastle 
Yabmoutu 
AnSTBALlA 
Melboubni 
Sydney 
Of course, if we knew her exact base, or oven her exact 
Bases, interception would bo very easy. Unfoiiunatcly, how- 
form instructive reading. They agree that the German shoots 
ing was not very good, and mention the marked courtesy with 
which they were treated. This coui-tesy was also remarked on 
by victims of the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. It is in curious 
contrast to the behaviour of the German army towards non- 
combatants, and is suggestive in some of its details — as, for 
e.xa.niple, the giving up of cabins — of sjiccial orders. 
Another circumstance is that the German officei-g were 
under the impression that Paris was invested and that several 
British Dreadnoughts had been sunk in the North Sea. From 
this distinctly German intelligence it would seem that they are 
in wireless touch with Germany- possibly they arc directed 
from headquarters at Berlin. In the old days a comir^-i'ce 
raider roamed the seas ignorant of happenings and perforce 
acting blindly and iiiclepeiidcutly. Now, by means of wireloss, 
co-operation on a general plan is possible, and there are indicar 
lions that^mo kind of plan is now in operation, which cer- 
tainly was not the case at the beginning of the war. 
More or less conleniporanoously with the Emden's career 
of destruction two other German corsairs have appeared. In 
each case the date was the samc^— Sqit. 14th. 
Of these the first is the 23J-knot Knnwf/xherff (qneiy 
Nurnherg or Ltijr.ig), also from Kiao-Chan. Shortly beforo 
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