 Complete the following phrase:  Koehler graduated from the Naval Academy in June 1909 and as a passed midshipman was attached to the armored cruiser on October 29 of that year. During his time aboard, New York made two cruises to the Mediterranean Sea and steamed to the Philippines. New York was renamed Saratoga in February 1911. In August, he was attached to the gunboat which was assigned to the Yangtze River Patrol in China on the broad principle of extending American protection to wherever this countrys nationals resided for Gold, Glory or Gospel, observed Koehler. Fifty years later, Villalobos was the inspiration for the fictional in Richard McKennas novel and later movie, The Sand Pebbles. But in 1911 when Koehler shipped aboard, it was only months before the Last Emperor, Pu-Yi abdicated the throne in January 1912. Before joining Villalobos, Koehler visited the battlefields of 