The Raider

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I have labeled the tale that follows "A Novel." And so it is. Yet paradoxically enough it is by no means all fiction. Many a younger man than I will recall that there was such a ship as the Emden, a German light cruiser, which operated in the far reaches of the Pacific and in the Indian Ocean during World War I, whose daring exploits made her name a byword throughout the world. There were such men as Kapitan Karl von Mueller and Helmuth von Muecke, von Guerard and Gyssling, von Hohenzollern, Schall, and Lauterbach, to name but a few. Oberhoboistenmaat Wecke conducted the ship's band at Tsingtao. The officers' cook was a civilian— though whether his name was Herman, as I have dubbed him, the record does not say. Furthermore, he did have a cat which gave birth to kittens in Leutnant Schall's lap, to the great glee of all his shipmates, as I have described, and his fate was as it has been told here. Oberleutnant Lauterbach was a reservist. He did command the Hamburg-Amerika liner Staats-sekretar Kratke, and was in port at Tsingtao at the outbreak of the war.

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