The mystery concerning this sailing was cleared up when
she was caught coaling the _Karlsruhe_ in the Atlantic. Both ships
made off in safety that time, and soon after a British cruiser
reported that she had been heard in wireless communication with
the _Dresden_. Thereafter the fate of this ship remained a mystery
till she put in at Hampton Roads on April 11, 1915.
Most spectacular was the career of the _Emden_, a third-class cruiser,
which sailed from Japanese waters at the same time as the _Koenigsberg_.
Through the ability of her commander, Captain Karl von Mueller, she
earned the soubriquet "Terror of the East," for by using a clever
system of supply ships she was able to raid eastern waters for
ten weeks without making a port or otherwise running the risk of
leaving a clue by which British ships might find her. Her favorite
occupation was that of stopping enemy merchantmen which she sank.
But her captain always allowed one--the last one--of her prizes to
remain afloat, and in this he sent to the nearest port the officers,
passengers, and crews of those that were destroyed. At times he
used prizes as colliers, putting them under command of his petty
officers.
By way of diversion, Captain von Mueller steamed into the harbor
of Madras in the Bay of Bengal and opened with his guns on the
suburbs of the town, setting on fire two huge oil tanks there.
The fort there returned the fire, but the _Emden_ after half an
hour sailed away unharmed.
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