When Gen. Chiang Kai-shek Challenged Communism Deep regret was expressed Shanghai on Saturday at the death of Vice-Admiral Colin' Kenneth Mac-Lean, CB, CV.0., DS.O., Rear-Adral and Senior Naval Officer on the 'Yangtze 1929-31. At the time of his retirement from service in China, the following appreciation appeared in the columns' of the "North-China Dairy News!
The best wishes of residents Shanghat and 3 the Yangtze will accompany Vice-Admiral" Machean "on his voyage Home, which he commenced fon November 3 after his two years" ser= Vice here, The role of Commander on {he Yangize Is never "an anay one, and follow successfully in the foots of "such able men as" Rear-Admiral Tweedie, for instance, requires a. great measure of that genius which combines the qualities of sailor "and™ diplomat, Admiral Tweedle's ume sections of with bandit-communists who shot at and Shelled "merchant ships when occasion resented itself, and' that with every Soncelvable type of weapon." Admiral MacLean hed to carry on the duty of Keeping these braver as much in order as their ability to alt appear rapidly" lowed, and he did it with characteristic energy. "At the same" time, the Com= funist menace: was steadily' growing the interior, in such provinces at Kia Sand Hunan, unt it State that Gen, Chiang take the field himasie dangerous hordes. in. the. meantime, however, the safely of the missionaries and others in such parts of the interior ould mot but be a cause of the utmost Pre-occupation tothe Admiral and sate to say that the Yangtze "Fiotila has ever" acquitted self better than in these trying 'Shenghai saw more of Admiral Mac: Lean than it did of Mis predecessor, and 'Hat has been a source of satisfaction. Like others who have. kept watches the Yangtze, Admiral MacLean had the faculty' for grasping the essentials of situation ina. moment, and his views were of the frst
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