Word: capt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well known," said the Daily Mail, "that the mother of Captain von Müller, was British." Here was another of the famed "War lies" (TIME, Jan. 21). Capt. von Müller's mother was thoroughly German...
...Gallant Capt. von Müller died in 1923, too soon to Emdenize his name...
...great Marlborough himself was no more punctilious than Capt. von Muller of the Emden. It was his boast that between August and November 1914 the Emden destroyed 20 million dollars worth of enemy shipping, mostly British, without the loss of a single life. True, the Emden sailed the Pacific under a British flag, disguised, with the aid of a disappearing canvas funnel, as the British cruiser Yarmouth. But within 1,000 yds. of her prey the behavior of the Emden was always scrupulously correct. Down came the flag and the dummy funnel; out broke the German ensign...
...custom of the Emden to travel accompanied by a coal tender and, usually, a "junkman." The "junkman" was a neutral or valueless ship detained by Capt. von Müller to be used as a floating hotel for the crews and passengers of destroyed vessels. When loaded to capacity, the "junkman" was released and sent steaming off to the nearest port. So bloated grew the Emden with provisions from her victims that Captain von Müller gave a band concert every afternoon and served coffee and bonbons to his crew...
...Died. Capt. A. E. S. Hambelton of London, "Mark Twain of the Atlantic," retired White Star Line master (Celtic, Baltic, Belgic, Adriatic, Olympic); in London...