The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-11
LIKE SEA TALE OF OLD.
Emden's Career Recalls buccaneers
of spanish Main.

No buccaneer that ever sailed the
Spanish Main gained need of fame to
compare with that garnered by Capt Won
Muller and hts 36l men OF the Emden
since the war began. Practically alone
in the Indian Ocean, with no available
base and obliged to get her supplies and
ammunition by strategy and daring, she
has kept going for weeks beyond the
time that naval experts predicted she
would last.
The only partial parallel to the career
OF the Emden is possibly that OF the
Confederate warship Alabama which
preyed upon Union commerce for many
months Even that comparison fails
when the size of the fleet that has bee.
searching for the Emden and the fact
that the Alabama usually had the sea
TO herself are taken into consideration.
Not once In the three months OF his
raidlng has Capt Won Muller been out of
danger. Virtually every one OF the hips
that have been after the Emden is of
greater tonnage and heavier armament
and on several occasions II seemed as
II her day of reckoning had come. But
each time the Emden's engines hit II
up little higher and left the British
pursuer in the rear. Only recently a
the German phantom taking supplies in
midocean from two storeships. Won Null
Ter left at twenty Ave knot speed and
all the British boat got out of Il was
the sinking of one storeshlp and the
capture of the other.
The Linden was a sister ship OF the
Dresden. which took part in the battle off
the Chilean coast. She was laid down at
Dantzig in 1906 and was completed in May,
1908. Her armament consisted of ten Al
inch guns, eight five FOUNDERS and four
machine guns. She was equipped with
aI 1 IV,nh ,,,A.
displaced $500 tons, was 3S7 feet long
and AZ Id feet in beam.
On the DAYS when the Emden was not
actually doing damage to the enemy's
commerce or warships she was giving
some bigger lighting vessel the slip. She
was built to make 245 knots but could
reach ~ in pinch and apparently did
so often because she was able to outleg
the sydney, which is capable OF about
26 knots, and other fast British cruisers
Tho list OF the victims OF the Emden
contain about twenty-five names, but II Is
believed that she has done even more
damage than that because all the infor-
nation as to her work has not been avail
able. How she got coal was a mystery in
naval circles until the Captain OF the
British steamer Exford. sunk by the
Emden in the Indian Ocean, reported that
Capt Won Muller said before he sent the
prize to the bottom he intended 10 trans
fer from her the 1000 tons OF coal she
carried.
One Of the officers OF the Emden was
Prince Franz Joseph OF Hohenzollern, a
member Of the non-reignlng branch OF the
lIohenzollern family. Capt. Won Muller
was admirable in his treatment of the
crews of the vessels he had to destroy,
since he had no port In which TO lodge
prizes. At no time has charge OF vio-
laton Of the naval war code been laid
against him,
The koenls sberg mas been equally act
i've In attacking British shipping, but her
success has not been as notable. Heg
chlef exploit was the disabling of the PEI
rasus IN Zanzibar harbOr on September
80, -hen the smaller vesse! was taken at