Todd war diary, 3 August 1914-29 February 1916 / Arthur Todd - Page 260
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for several days; so the Germans were received hospitably and every kindly attention due to a friendly power was paid them. The Emden refitted and departed without informing the population that a state of war existed. A course was now shaped for Penang, and a fourth funnel shipped, making the Emden look like a town class British cruiser. At sunrise on October 28th she entered Penang without opposition, and on going right up the harbour found the small Russian cruiser Zhemchug. A torpedo into her stern practically finished the Russian, but she pluckily opened fire until a second torpedo right amidships blew her to pieces. The Emden now turned to leave the harbour and encountered the French gunboat D'Iberville. Then the French destroyer Mousquet appeared out at sea, and the Emden, steaming rapidly past the D'Iberville, engaged her. A few salvos reduced the destroyer to fragments. After picking up the survivors, the Emden put out to sea and made for Cocos, where she met her fate.
Two days after leaving Cocos the Sydney was met by the Empress of Asia, one of the C.P.R. liners, which had been taken over by the Admiralty as an armed merchantman. She had been sent out from Colombo to relieve us of such wounded as were fit to be moved. Both ships hove to in mid-ocean, and all the walking cases and most of the prisoners were transferred. Captain von Müller however still remained as the Captain's guest. The French crew of the Empress were at no pains to conceal their joy at having the handling of German