Takes Command 'Roar-Admiral Harry B. Yarnell, the new commander of the US. Asiatic Fleet, Is a busy man these days al though he will rot take over' from Admiral Orrin G. Murfin until Octo-
"Rear-Admiral Yarnell, who according to American naval custom will be-rome a full-fledged Admiral during hhiscommand of the Asiatic Fleet, frst came {o Shanghai as long ago as 1900 in the gunboat Yorktown enroute to Taku during the Boxer rebellion. He came again in 1904 In the destroyer Dale during the Russo-Japanese War. Now he Is renewing acquaintance with the city and meeting new and old friends in the
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