September 26, 1914 
LAND AND WATER 
THE WAR BY WATER. 
By FRED T. JANE. 
ON THE HIGH SEAS GENERALLY. 
THE week, or, rather, the week's news, has been 
marked by a recrudescence of Gorman corsaii-s — 
ships which undoubtedly have secret bases in 
which they have probably been hiding. 
Of these the most dangerous and mysterious 
is the 24-knot Emden, which was at Kiao-Chau 
just before the war broke out. 
On Sept. 10th, nothing having been seen or heard of her 
in the six weeks' interval, accompanied by the Marlcomannia, 
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 the remaining vessel into Calcutta with the crews. At 
some later date she was reported from Rangoon having made 
ever, seeking her bases is likely to approximate to the search 
for a needle in a bundle of ha^'. 
There are at least ten ways by which she can return to 
the Pacific. There are at leaat 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. There are groups of islands in each case. There 
are scores of sheltered places in which she can coal from colliei-s 
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 Enulen, 
but till then she has serious possibilities, as, for example, the 
stoppage of all outward trade from Calcutta. 
The stories of the captured who were landed at Calcutta 
I^aXxal or available 
for coaling ^^ 
\ German HH 
\ Hostile. I I 
CAROLINE ISLANDS 
8ISMARK 
ARCHIPELAGO 
NEW POMMERN 
MAP TO ISDICATK THB BXTREMa DIFFICULTY OF CATCUIKQ TIIK " KJIDEN " IN THB EAST INDIAN AKClIIPELAaO. THE DOTS ONLY INDICATE 
TUB rEINCITAL ISLANDS— TH«K» ARS MANY OTHEBg. THR ARROWS INDICATE ONLY HEB CHIEF POSSIBLE WAYS OF RETURN TO HEB SECRET 
BASES. THE DIFFICULTIES OF INTERCEPTION ARE CORRKSPONDINQLY OBTIOUS, EVEN IF NEUTRALS BE lONORED. 
furthei- captures. The loss incurred by her fii-st raid is esti- 
mated at something like £300,000. On Tuesday last she again 
made herself unpleasantly notorious, by dropping nine shells 
into Madras, and doing damage to the value of £100,000. 
The attack on Neu Pommern in tlie 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 
3peed or thereabouts is : — 
East Inrlja Scina'lron 
China Squadron ... 
Ditto 
Australian Fleet ... 
Ditto 
Ditto 
Dartmouth 
Newcastle 
Yarmouth 
Australia 
Melbourne 
Sydney 
Of course, if we knew her exact baso, or oven her exact 
wascs, interception would bo VC17 easy. Unfortunately, how- 
foi-m instructive reading. They agree that the German shoot- 
ing was not very good, and mention the marked courtesy with 
which they were treated. This courtesy was also remarked on 
by victims of the Kaiser Wilhelm dcr 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 
example, the giving up of cabins — of special orders. 
Another circumstance is that the German officers were 
under the impression that Paris was invested and that several 
British Dreadnoughts had been sunk in tho North Sea. From 
this distinctly German intelligence it would seem that they are 
in wireless touch with Germany — possibly they are directed 
from headquarters at Berlin. In the old days a commerce 
raider roamed the seas ignorant of happenings and perforco 
acting blindly and independently. Now, by means of wireless, 
co-operation on a genei-al plan is possible, and there are indica- 
tions that some kind of plan is now in operation, which cer- 
tainly was not the case at the beginning of the war. 
More or less contemporaneously with the Emden's career 
of destruction two other German corsairs have appeared. In 
eacli case the date was the same — Sept. I'lth. 
Of these tlio first is the 231-knot KonirgKhcrfl (query 
Nurnherg or Leijiiiff), also from Kiao-Chau. Shortly before 
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