THE EMDEN AND THE SYDNEY.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 30, Issue 29, 16 April 1918, Page 4

THE EMDEN AND THE SYDNEY.

CAPTAIN YON MULLER'S STORY.

UNKNIGHTLY BRITISH.

LONDON, Feb. 5,

The Daily Mail tells that Captain von Muller, of the Emden, has given an extended interview to the official Wolff Agency dealing with his defeat and capture by the Australian cruiser Sydney, his experiences as a British prisoner, and his attempt to escape in September 1917, Muller is now engaged o,g an .exhaustive report for the German Admiralty of the Emden J s romantic career.

Captain von Muller is said to be very bitter about his life in British captivity, and to describe as "unheard of" his treatment in the battleship London which brought him from Malta to England. The interview, widely reproduced in the latest German papers to reach London, says;— ‘My fight with the Sydney did not last as long as people apparently think. The enemy’s superior artillery and heavy armour were too much for us. We were also seriously handicapped by the absence of our landing detachments of 45 officers and men, especially for munition transport. It was a sorrowful decision for me to give up my ship, now a battered wreck, but there was nothing else to do after all our guns and even our torpedo apparatus, were reported out of action. Neither cf my own experiences nor those of our prisoners in general at all bear out thp impression widely held in Germany that the EngMsh are acting in a knightly fashion. At least, I can only describe as remarkable in the highest degree the manner of my sudden transfer from Malta. One is very painfully im pressed by the efforts of the English to make a, business but of the keeping and feeding of prisoners, especially the non-commissioned officers in prisoner camps.’ PLANS FOR ESCAPE.

‘Even though I knew of my impend-