Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock
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September 1914
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Hermuth von Moltke replaced by Erich von Falkenhayn as Chief of the German General Staff
Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock, commander of the North American and West Indies Station, is told to prepare to fight the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, and was promised the Defence, a powerful cruiser, as well as the Canopus, an older but still powerful battleship.
Admiral von Spee's squadron reaches Samoa but finds the New Zealand garrision too well dug in to risk an attack.
All crewmen captured by the German cruiser SMS Emden during her raid into the India Ocean are put onto the neutral steamer Kabinga and released.