Word: emden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...behind the blue hills, through North Carolina with its little towns and their false-front buildings on Main Street. Finally the young man and his Ford reached Charleston, S. C. where the harbor water lay flat and blue. The thing he liked most in Charleston was the German cruiser Emden which one day steamed into port, made fast to a wharf. Mornings he watched brisk German sailors in white gymnasium suits doing setting-up exercises on the warship's decks. Finally after a good long look, he started North toward Manhattan and his Connecticut home...
...Gallipoli have built a monument of fame to Australia's soldiers that cannot be destroyed. Australia's Navy, however, is young, small and very green. There is just one victory to which Australian bluejackets can point with pride. In November 1914 the high-stacked German commerce raider Emden, almost at the end of its fuel after a spectacular career among Allied shipping in the Far East, was cornered off the Cocos Islands by the Australian cruiser Sydney, beached and burned with a great loss of life among the Emden's crew. The Emden's gallant Captain...
...Reporters with lanterns, ropes and shovels piled into a car, dashed through the night the 500 miles to Melbourne. Trembling with excitement they reached the edge of a suburban city park, and following a hastily scrawled treasure map, began to dig. A shovel struck something hard. It was the Emden's bell...
...world gasped three years ago when blatant Huey Pierce Long, then Governor of Louisiana, hoisted himself out of bed in pajamas and received a full-dress courtesy call from the commander of the German cruiser Emden. In Veracruz, Mexico, never, never would Mayor Epigmenio Guzman be guilty of such a breach of etiquet. Last fortnight the British cruiser Norfolk dropped anchor in Veracruz bearing in her stern cabin none less than the Commander-in-Chief of Britain's America & West Indies Station, Vice-Admiral the Hon. Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax...
...remind his dear friends, his honored guests, of those dear days when Tanga was one of the chief jewels in the Kaiser's crown. He wanted to remind them too that it was from German East Africa that the commerce raider Konigsberg, almost as spectacular as the Emden, started in 1914, and that it was not far from Tanga harbor that she was finally sunk with colors flying...