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Show TRANSPORTS WERE IN GREAT DANGER MELBOURNE. ':stral!a. P-fC. 4. via Uc-ndon. 1 : 5 p. m. Information made public here today indicated tha t when the famous German cruiser Emden was at last run down by the Australian cruiser Sydney she was preparing to undertake the most daring and destructive of her many adventures. Gor?e F. Pearce, the commonwealth minister of defense, announced an-nounced in the senate today that when the Sydney intercepted the Emden the transports bearing the Australian and New Zealand expeditionary force were within 100 miles of the German cruiser. |