Emden - The Story of the Famous Raiding Cruiser - My Experience in S.M.S. Emden

Herbert Jenkins Ltd, 5th printing popular edition
The activities of the Emden, during the year of the war, 1914, set the whole world, friend and foe, wondering, and innumerable pens in motion. Most of this unauthorised Emden literature is, however, more zealous than accurate, and it may be truthfully said that it leaves legitimate demands unsatisfied, and an exact and connected description of all the events that happened is conspicuously absent. Our commanding officer, the unforgettable and heroic Kapitan von Muller, never wrote a line about himself or the Emden. The first officer, Kapitan-leutnant von Mucke, in his report, dealt with the activities of the ship and ship's company, during the time he was on board the Emden. He was in command of the landing-party for the destruction of a cable and wireless station, and never saw the Emden again. He bravely escaped on the Ayesha, and made his return by the land route, through Palestine, Syria, etc. I served as second torpedo officer in the Emden from the beginning of her activities to the destruction of the ship, and was then, with Kapitan von Muller and the rest of the survivors, interned for five years at Malta as a prisoner of war...