Karl von Müller

We heard about the squadron leaving Tsingtao to try to return to Germany, the defeat of the British Navy at the Sea Battle of Coronel, the first in over 100 years, and the eventual German squadron losses at the Battle of the Falklands.

At an early stage of the squadron's departure from China into the Pacific Ocean, Carl von Muller, the captain of the Emden, suggested detaching one cruiser to the Indian Ocean to distract allied naval resources, create uncertainty and pursue a war against commercial and naval shipping as opportunities arose.

Essentially, a commercial raider employing the fleet in being strategy to occupy as much attention from the Allied navies as possible.

A single ship might be able to sustain its activity far more effectively than the whole squadron for as long as it was free to do so.

The German wounded were taken to Australia for treatment.

A British sloop, the Cadmus, was sent to Direction Island to bury the sailors killed in the action.

Captain Carl von Muller was taken to England to be interned at a camp near Nottingham.

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