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...Raider Emden. Under the auspices of the German Admiralty, the World War exploits of the famed German cruiser, Emden, have been put into a breath-taking film. It shows how the Emden swooped down upon and sank two dozen British ships in southern seas, before the Sydney put her beneath the waves off Cocos Island. It contains no propaganda...
Within the space of four days Lieutenant Commander Edward Ellsberg, the expert on naval salvage, and Count Felix von Luckner, the German sea-raider, will speak at the Union, it was announced last night. Tomorrow Lieutenant Commander Ellsberg will relate his experiences; and on Tuesday Count Luckner will tell about his adventures...
Married. Miss Nanine H. Ulman, of Baltimore; to Count Alfred de Niezychowski, heir to many Polish acres, famed German sea raider; in Baltimore...
...floes of Cape Horn and eluded a waiting enemy squadron by fabricated wireless messages are details which read like the imagined adventures of the veriest romancer. The loss of the Seeadler and his further adventures in the Pacific, the description of the life-boat armed and converted into a raider crossing a thousand miles of open ocean to the wheezing and blaring of an antique accordion, and his ultimate escape from the English in a stolen officer's uniform would tax a reader's credulity if they were not already matters of record...
...vivid though extraneous feature of the public session was a description by Admiral Earl Jellicoe of the War-time exploits of the German raider Berlin-exploits which correspondents often described, during the War, only to have their despatches "killed" by Allied censors. Lord Jellicoe admitted, last week, that the Berlin once ducked unperceived through eight battle squadrons of the British Grand fleet and proceeded to lay mines which later sank the potent British battle cruiser Audacious...