WARPED LOGIC TO VINDICATE DEFEAT

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6542, 25 February 1928, Page 9

WARPED LOGIC TO VINDICATE DEFEAT

Ceram Vera® Of Eindes Figbt “SOTTER AND LIBELLOUS” 'jusdijfjje Cabie-CopyriEbtl i p aw g o»i iS-Z. Caflla Aasocaatloa-I iCKi*C6*' 1, *4 Fritter, ?-SO p.in) LONDON. Feb 23. Frias* Fisa# Jooeph, second toriCtfßwf 'Os. the Emden. has pubboaK entitled "The Emdcn” allesalioas which the XHuir Express characterises as bitter uaft kibEllww and asks why the .Nurse Cavcll picture should be banned when 'tluji ! British are asked to read such libel* with regard to the sinking of the German ship, *a»» Frince denies that Von Muller surrendered' though he admits the Emdsn's ensign was .hauled down and the white Hag run up. With Teutonic logic he explains: -Oae can only surrender with weapmau As the ship was a wreck and all our weapons were destroyed there could be no talk of surrender. The .flag was hauled down because the ship was a wreck and had no longer any right to fly it and further bloodshed was not justifiable. While running upon the reof> the flag was forgotten. It did not occur to anyone that the flag at the maintop of a ■wreck would be taken as a reason for resuming the bombardment." Detailing his imprisonment at Malta, the Prince alleges that the crew ortho Breslau were cheated out of their food allowance by British soldiers and money remittances were falsified to the disadvantage of the Germans. The Prince says that 150 men of the Emden with 850 others, spent three hopeless years in Fort Salvatore shut In by high walls without room to exercise .enduring martyrdom to which a number of cases of madness or attempted suicide bear. witness. The Prince repeats the old story that he saw ammunition boxes being loaded into hospital ships. A note in the Prince’s book states that Von Muller was a foe so worthy that the British Government wished to honour him. after the- war. There were however difficulties in the way. The English publisher explains that the proposed honour was the Distinguished Service Order. • The Daily Chronicle drew the Admiralty’s' attention to tho statement and an Admiralty official said that such an amazing statement cannot be credited while the Foreign office gives It a categorical denial.