The New York herald., 1922-11-21
FIGHT ON LECTURES
BY GERMAN RAIDER
Department of Justice Asked
to Call Halt on Officer
Of the Emden.
NO LAWS TO BAR HIM
Officials Say That Any Dis
orders Will Mean Sudden
Stopping of Tour.

The New York Office of the Depart
ment Of Justice has been appealed to
by a number of citizens to prevent
Lieut. Capt. Hellmuth Won Muecke,
second in command to Capt. Muller
os the German raider Enden, from
lecturing in this country. The Ger
man seamon is now in Chicago ready
to begin series of lectures on the ex-
ploits of the raider, lectures expected
by Won Muecke to turn out very prof.
tably.
BY letter and telephone protests
have been made to Capt. Brennan of
the Department Of Justice and to his
aids. Men and women have SAID that
they considered it intolerable and in
decent that German held to be one
OF the great war heroes of his country
should be allowed to come here and
boast Of exploits which were Injurious
to America. They urged that the De-
partment of Justice find way to stop
Won Muecke from lecturing and to
n
testants said that there should be no
more reason for the German sailor to
lecture here than in Canada. a thing
no German would dare to do.
No Legal stigma on Him.
While no officiaf statement Is forth
coming from Brennan or any of his sub
ordinates In the New York Office it Is
known that the matter has been referred
to Washington. The Department of
Justice now has under consideration
what course It may legally and properly
take regarding Won Muecke. There Is
some doubt that It has any right to
interfere with him. peace having been
formally declared with Germany and all
stigma legally removed from German
citizens. But. as was pointed out here
yesterday, the law doesn't cover all the
essential facts OF life and extra legal
methods sometimes have 10 be found.
At the New York office It was said
quite frankly that Won Muecke GER
tainly would not be allowed to stir up
disorder that If his lecturing drew hos
tile crowds and seemed 10 incite to vio-
lence then he would have to give up his
tour Out West the hint as to how
properly to get rid of the German may
possibly be taken
Calls English Good Sports.
Starting his lecture tour. Won Muecke
talked entertainingly. He thinks the
English are good sports.
when was getting ready to escape
from the Cocos Islands and was rigging
up the makeshift sailing ship Eyashe
the Englishmen helped me ft up the
boat. Maybe they thought the bottom
would drop out OF the old hulk, but
whatever they thought thev treated me
very decently."
Won Muecke went into the German
Navy at IL. He is still young man.
IL. He said yesterday that his books
had not sold well in Germany simply
because the people are too poor to buy
books. All they have goes on their
backs or into their stomachs.
The outcome of the war doesn't
ranklesfn my heart" said Won Muecke.
I'VE had to quit. The thing to do now
is to take our defeat gracefully and be-
gin to build up from the bottom"
AUSTIN. Tex. Nov. 2o.--Protest
against Capt. Helmuth Won Muecke beins
permitted to deliver series OF lectures
in German throughout the United States
was telegraphed tonight by the Travis
County American Legion Post to Legion
national headquarters