The Archive · 1914

The Captain of the Emden

'A German correspondent writes to contradict the report to which we alluded yesterday, under the usual reservation attached to all such stories, that Captain Earl von Mueller, of the Emden, has an English mother and wife and wae partly] 'PP educated ab Harrow. We may say that we something Li this, including the evident warmth with which our correspondent writes. He aske for "a similar prominent space" to that given to the original report. He shall have it: Meller, allow me to say that his mother Being an old acquaintance of von

and pure Teutonic family, that hia wife nee von Bennigeen, of "very old cannot be an English lady because in so far a confirmed bachelor—tl Sherofore, still " chance, however-and

Well, he is a very gallant fellow life. Not yet, never saw beautiful England in anyhow.

all the same. And if he has never teen England yet, we sincerely hope that when be falls in with a British cruiser, he will forgo his avowed intention of sinking his ship rather than be captured. They would appreciate him, in England.

Nov. 4

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