mden_ four funnels, such as the _Yarmouth_ carried. Coming into
the harbor in the twilight of the dawn, she was taken by those on
shore to be the British ship, not a hostile gun ready for her.

Lying in the harbor was the Russian cruiser _Jemchug_ and three
French destroyers and a gunboat. The watch on the Russian ship
questioned her, and was told by the wireless operator on the _Emden_
that she was the _Yarmouth_ returning to anchor. By this ruse the
German ship was enabled to come within 600 yards of the Russian ship
before the false funnel was discovered. Fire immediately spurted
from the Russian guns, but a torpedo from the _Emden_ struck the
_Jemchug's_ engine room and made it impossible for her crew to get
ammunition to her guns. Von Mueller poured steel into her from a
distance of 250 yards with terrible effect. The Russian ship's list
put many of her guns out of action, and she was unable to deliver
an effective reply. Another torpedo from the _Emden_ exploded her
magazine. Fifteen minutes after the firing of the first shot the
Russian had gone to the bottom.

Von Mueller now put the prow of the _Emden_ to sea again, for he
feared that both the _Yarmouth_ and the French cruiser _Dupleix_
had by then been summoned by wireless. Luck was with him. Half an
hour after leaving the harbor he sighted a ship flying a red flag,
which showed him at once that she was carrying a cargo of powder. He
badly needed the ammunition, and he prepared to capture her. But
this operation was interrupted by a mirage, which caused the small
French destroyer _Mosquet_ to appear like a huge battleship. When
he discovered the truth, Von Mueller closed with the Frenchman, who
came to the rescue of the _Glenturret_, the powder ship. Destroyer
and cruiser closed for a fight, the former trying to get close
enough to make work with torpedoes possible, but the long range
of the _Emden's_ guns prevented this, and the _Mosquet_ was badly
damaged by having her engine room hit. Soon she was in a bad way,
and Von Mueller ordered his guns silenced, thinking the destroyer
would now give up the fight. But the Frenchman was valiant and
refused to do so; he let go with two torpedoes which did not find
their mark, and was immediately subjected to a withering fire,
which caused his ship to sink, bow first.

One of the destroyers which had been in the harbor now came out
to take issue with the _Emden_, but it was the business of the
latter to continue des