The Cocos Islands—about half-way between Fremantle and Colombo—have a definite place in Australia's war history, for it was at the islands that H.M.A.S. Sydney engaged and destroyed the German raider Emden. There is a cable station on the islands, and the staff is supplied with vegetables by passing ships in the manner illustrated above. LEFT: A barrel of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Sydney Mail (NSW : 1912 - 1938), Wed 27 Jan 1937, Page 11
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