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...Hermann Miiller. who signed the Versailles Treaty, told for the first time his reminiscences of the ceremony, described how he and Johannes Bell, his colleague, signed the treaty with their own pens because they heard that the French wanted them to sign with pens from Alsace-Lorraine. Chancellor Müller signed with his own old fountain pen, Delegate Bell with a wooden pen taken from his hotel bedroom...
...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...
With Captain von Müller captured and safely interned, British papers saluted "the gallant commander who handled his ship with the skill of an accomplished sea officer and the courtesy of a chivalrous gentleman...
...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...