Admiral Tsai Ting-kan Ends Picturesque Career Peiping, Sept. 30.
The death has occurred here, at the age of 74, of Admiral Tsai Ting-(kan, who was at one time Minister {for Foreign Affairs in the old Peking Government.
Admiral Tsai was one of the frst Chinese students to proceed to America for an education, going the early seventies. He participated the Sino-Japanese War, when he was in command of the Chinese torpedo-boats.
Admiral Tsai retired from public life afler the death of Matshal [Chang Tso-lin and the: decupation Peking by the Nationalists. During recent years, he has lived in Peiping indulging his fancy for literary work [and publishing several volumes of English translations of Chinese pretry.
The Admiral was an excellent, witty after-dinner speaker in English:
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.