VON MULLER OF THE EMDEN.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17119, 14 April 1921, Page 7

VON MULLER OF THE EMDEN.

REPORTED DEATH OF FAMOUS RAIDER. (By Oa.b*j»—Preta Association— Copyright.) fßeuter'a lelegxama.) BERLIN, April 12. The adventurous career of Captain von Miillcr, the famous commander or the raider Emden, is believed to have ' been closed. It is • reported that Lo was t)hot at Gleiwitz after having woumied three Upper Silesian policemen. Captain von Miiller had been concerned in the formation of a secret armed force for the purpose of securing Germany's retention or Upper Silesia. [The career of Captain von MttUer in the famous Emden is one of the very few clean pages, in "the war record or the German Navy. In two months Captain MiiJer made a series of daring raids and dealt some heavy blows at British merchant shipping in the Indian Ocean. He scrupulously observed the rules of naval warfare, and his chivalrous and courteous treatment of _tho hundreds of seamen and passengers in the ships captured and sunk by him very nearly proved his undoing on more than one occasion. The Emden originally left Tsingtau on July 31st, 1914, and on August 4th dhe made her first a Russian steamer. On September 10th. she arrived on the Colombo-Calcutta, route and played havoc with laden, ships, capturing and sinking six large steamers of 29,477 tons, a seventh being sent with all the prisoners to Calcutta, with a warning that tflie navigation lights in the Hoogly had been removed. On September 22nd the Emden shelled Madras and set fire to the oil storage tanks there. The depredations of the cruiser caused a total interruption of sea-borne trade in. Indian waters tor some days. Between September iiitlx and 27tth, the Emden captured and sank near Ceylon five ships of 18,943 tons, a sixth being retained as & prison ship until the night of the 27th, when she was sent to Colombo. On October 16th the Emden captured and sank two laden steamers and a dredge whidh was bound to Tasmania. Next day four more steamers were captured, two being sunk, one retained as a tender, and the fourth released to land the orews of the other ships. On October 28th the Emden boldly steamed into Penang and sank a Russian cruiser which was lying at anchor and tiHe French destroyer Mousquet which was met outside, the survivors of the -latter being put on .board a British steamer which was met two days later. The Emden was finally sunk off Cocos Keeling Island on November Sth by the cruiser Sydney, whicih was detached from the escort of the Australian and New Zealand Main Body convoy. Captain von Miiller was taken prisoner with the other survivorß. The total number of ships sunk by the Emden was sixteen, of 70,360 tons gros3 register.] ,