The captured sailors with their Captain von Müller (Photo #1) were taken to Singapore, which, after the withdrawal of a British battalion, was protected only by the 5th Indian Light Infantry Regiment, made up of North Indian Muslims, and the Malay States Guides. End of story for the Emden crew you would think. Far from it.

Another fantastic side tale to the EMDEN´s story:

Back at Tsingtao a reserve officer joined the light cruiser SMS Emden. He was the Captain of the HAPAG Liner "Staatssekretär Krätke" and he was a boisterous, affable, beer-swilling giant with twenty years experience in the China seas. His name was Julius Lauterbach. (see photo #3)
Lauterbach served as prize officer during SMS Emden`s raids, taking command of captured ships.  His knowledge of ships and captains plying far east waters proved invaluable on many occasions and his affable nature calmed many a captured captain. On one occasion an attractive woman on one of the prizes smiled at him and said, "Captain Lauterbach, how lovely to see you again." She had been one of his peacetime passengers - and he had a way with the ladies. 
At the time of Emden's destruction, Lauterbach was in command of the captured collier Exford. The ship was recaptured off the coast of Sumatra, but just before her capture Lauterbach altered the ship's compass so it would give a false reading. Sure enough, the ship ran aground en route to Singapore and was wrecked.
Imprisoned in Singapore, he was visited by a half-French, half-Chinese paramour who brought him maps and arranged a boat for him should he escape. Later of course he was reunited with the POW of the Emden when they arrived after their final battle at Cocos Islands.

The German prisoners of war managed to incite their guards to a mutiny, which broke out on February 15, 1915, but was soon put down by the police and sailors from ships in port. One of the ships involved was the HMS Cadmus. You will read about the Cadmus later. Lauterbach however remained at large. The British put a £1,000 price on his head.
Arming himself with Swedish, Dutch and Belgian passports and a host of disguises (including an Arab merchant) he journeyed from Singapore to Cebu to Padang to Manilla in six weeks. He stayed in Manilla for eight more weeks, taking the time to send postcards to his British friends - and one to the commander of Tanglin barracks in Singapore from whence he had just escaped. Aboard a Japanese collier he made his way to Tientsin and Shanghai. A friend there owed him $500. In Shanghai he was warned by another of his lady friends of a plot to kidnap him. That very night four men tried to seize him as he left the German Club. He broke free and escaped by jumping into the river as shots rang out after him.
Stealing the passport of US Navy Petty Officer W. Johnson, he travelled to Nagasaki. However, his enemies had been tipped off. Upon arriving there, Japanese agents were waiting and asking for "Mr. Johnson." As luck would have it, a Colonel Johnson of the US Army stepped forward and asked what the fuss was about. A few days later in Yokohama he caught a private investigator searching his cabin looking for a German officer, but Lauterbach successfully passed himself off as American. There was a 250,000 yen reward for him and the PI wanted it. Lauterbach later sent him a postcard as well.
From Yokohama he travelled to San Francisco via Honolulu, and found he had become a celebrity in the newspapers. Disguised as a Dane he boarded a train for New York where he took a job as a stoker on a Danish steamer bound for Oslo. Off the Orkney's the ship was stopped by an RN patrol which spent five days going over the ship's crew and cargo. From Oslo he made his way to Copenhagen and then, at last, on October 10, 1915, eleven months after his capture, he arrived home in Warnemunde.

Another extraordinary story. 

Here is a link if you want to read more about the Mutiny:

The Singapore Mutiny, 1915 - Britain's Small Forgotten Wars (britainssmallwars.co.uk)

After that the quelling of the rebellion the Emden prisoners were brought on board the HMS Hampshire to be transferred to a POW camp in England. This was the very warship the SMS Emden had the football match against at the outbreak of the war in Tsingatao! So the two football teams met again under different circumstances.

When the Hampshire reached Malta it was decided to leave the prisoners there since there was a U-Boat warning issued and the journey could not continue.

The prisoners stayed in Malta until long after the end of the first world war and were only released in December 1919!

The crew of the HMS Hampshire however did not survive the war. On 5th June 1916 she ran into a Minefield near the Orkney Islands which had been laid by a German Submarine. On board was the Minister for War Horatio Kitchener. He was the only member of the British Government who was killed during the war. Only 12 crewmembers out of a total number of 655 were saved.

Here is a link to an account of the time of the crew in Malta. It is in German but contains also a lot of photographs:

Gefangenschaft_Malta_W.Juncker.PDF (emdenfamilie.de)

Photo #2 shows the crew of the Emden before the War. As mentioned in the article about the imprisonment you can notice the brass instruments of the Band in the front. Photo # 4 was taken during imprisonment on Malta.