Serene beachfront in Samoa with palm trees and traditional huts under a blue sky.

Pacific grabs

New Zealand seized German Samoa; Australia landed in German New Guinea; Japan took Tsingtao and Pacific islands.

World War I: The War Far from Europe

SMS Rheinland, a Nassau-class battleship, Germany's first response to the British Dreadnought, 1910

Raiders on the loose

The cruiser SMS Emden seized or sank 15 merchant ships and sank the Russian cruiser Zhemchug at Penang before hunters closed in.

World War I: The War Far from Europe

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