"You may rest assured that £ shall do my utmost to carry on the efflclent work of my predecessors to increase the effectiveness of the Fleet and enable It to be ready to support Immediately the national potleles of the United States whenever called upon.
Admiral Kimmel is a native of Kentucky and has been In the Navy since 1900. Ho is respected amon his fellow officers as an astute naval strategist.
In 1917 he was sent to England as a naval observer attached (0 the British Grand Fleet, Later he was squadron gunnery officer with the US, naval squadron until the end of the war. In 1923 he was appointed Gommander of a. destroyer division with the Asiatic Fleet, where he served two years.
Admiral Kimmel is at present Commander of the heavy cruisers which have been maneouvring with the romainder of the Fleet since April United Press. within sight of land. While the boat was in close company with the submarine, the survivors, who included the master, were able to observe that their gunfire had not been without effect, and the Italians admitted that two men of their crew had been killed and others wounded—Reuter,
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