Word: emdenize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...German Navy consists of eiglu battleships: Braunschweig, Elsass, Hanover, Hessen, Schlesien, Schleswig-Holstein, Preussen, Lothringen; eight light cruisers: Nymphe, Medusa, Thetis, Amazone, Arkona, Hamburg, Berlin, Emden; one surveying vessel, Meteour; 32 destroyers and torpedo-boats ; no submarines. The strength of the Navy is governed by the Treaty of Versailles...
...Last week the German admiralty announced having touched a spot lower in the world than any spot recorded?a spot 34,416 feet below sea level. With line and sinker, the cruiser Emden had found it, in the so-called "Japanese Ditch," running from Japan down to the Philippine Islands. The greatest ocean depth previously known was 32,644 feet, off the east coasts of Japan...
...Kaiser Wilhelm II reigned, the World War broke out, cables between Germany and the U. S. were cut by the Allies. Last week President von Hindenburg, second President of the German people, exchanged greetings with President Coolidge, formally opening the newly laid Emden-Azores cable...
...cable, which runs from the coast of Kent, in England, to Emden, on the west coast of Germany, was inaugurated by cordial messages between Sir John Denison-Pender, Chairman of the Eastern Telegraph Co., and Dr. Solmsen of the German Atlantic Telegraph...
Herr Kapitan-Lieutnant Helmuth von Muecke, commander of the cruiser Emden during the World War, plans an American lecture tour to acquaint ignorant, eager audiences of the marauding deeds of his vessel. Surprisingly enough, there is an avalanche of protest. An honest raider, perceiving that there is almost as much money in lecturing as in writing Memoirs, proposes to turn an honest penny by presenting to us such interesting, vivid pictures as the blowing up of passenger ships and the sinking of army transports...