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Show IS READHOREIIIIE Rear Admiral Kimball Will Soon Haul Down Flag. Officer Who Recently Settled the Nlc-araguan Nlc-araguan Imbroglio Without War, Was First to Recognize the Submarine's Value. Washington. When Rear Admiral William Wirt Kimball hauls down his flag from i he cruiser Albany as commander-in-chief of the Nicaragua expeditionary ex-peditionary force he will have ended a five months' tour of duty which ha. been of exceptional interest and importance. im-portance. The assignment, moreover, has been extremely complimentary to him, inasmuch as he is the only officer offi-cer of the navy who has been assigned as-signed to the command of a squadron after having been transferred from the list, of active service to the roster of the retired. The admiral had already rounded out the stipulated period of active service when the Nicaraguan trouble broke out. When In the first of last December the government deemed It necessary to send a strong body of marines and a numerous force of war-Ehips war-Ehips to the scene, it was announced that Admiral Kimball, then on duty in Washington, had been assigned to command the expedition. The admiral ad-miral was then almost on the verge of retirement and it was practically prac-tically certain that this duty would cons.derabiy overlap into the retired period. But as explained by the navy de partmcnt, "Kimball is the vry man for the work." Those intimately acquainted with the admiral and who had a foreknowledge fore-knowledge of what the work was likely like-ly to be, did not need that official indorsement in-dorsement to know that he was the very man to handle it. Eminently competent in his profession, the admiral ad-miral possessed other qualifications which peculiarly fitted him for this task, one of these being a thorough knowledge of international law. The result has shown that it was to Admiral Ad-miral Kimball, more than to any oth- Rear Admiral Kimball. er man. is due the credit of our having hav-ing emerged from the Nicaragua imbroglio im-broglio with so few blunders when the possibility of creating numerous ones and accentuating those already made were so numerous and prolific. But the admiral showed himself to be a diplomat of a high order. He won the confidence and esteem of i the whole of Nicaragua, irrespective of party. He was cheered wherever he went, by the Madriz government party, by the Eslradists, by the interventionists. inter-ventionists. "What we need," one of the Interventionists Inter-ventionists enthusiastically said to the admiral at the time when Intervention Inter-vention talk was running high, "is American occupation and the strong arm of your country compelling order in Nicaragua." "What you really most need," the admiral, with his customary good sense replied, "is less talk of revolution, revolu-tion, less importations of fire arms, and more of farm implements." The Nicaraguan newspapers have had columns of complimentary references refer-ences to Admiral Kimball. Considering Consid-ering that ho was in Nicaraguan waters wa-ters and in command of a military force which might any day have been celled into use against Nicaragua, this praise from these Sir Huberts is praise indeed. Willi three parties struggling for supremacy, with the one In power being distinctly hostile to everything American, the Mtuatiotj from any point of view was ;m extremely ex-tremely deiicate one and required infinite in-finite tact to handle. The admiral is possessed of that tact In a hr;h degree de-gree and brought it into play. ;Not only tli'I he prevent any conlliet between be-tween the forces of the United States and those of the contending parties, but in so doing fully maintained the dignity of the flag and met every situation sit-uation with a strict observance of the requirements of international law and of naval usage. Tii". admiral was born in Paris. Me., on January 0. IS 18. He entered the Naval academy on July 31, ISM), graduating grad-uating for years later. In 1ST1) he was promoted to the rank of em ign and in the following year to that of master, a rank which was abolished many years ago. lie was one of the firi-t of his proft-Ksion on this side of the Atlantic At-lantic to recognize the potential value of the submarine, and it was laige'y through his efforts that John I'. Holland Hol-land was eventually enabled to construe', con-strue', the pioneer of that type of vessel. ves-sel. One naval board after another sat on the ch vice, and sat on it in Liore .--ense-; than one |