ORIENTAL COURTESY.
EXAMPLE TO GERMANS. lit sc.* nrifl Sydney S in Services.
'Hcwived November 17, 7.30 p.m.) London, November 16. The Japanese behaved at Tsingtau with punctilious courtesy. The siege guns sank the enemy's warships in the harbour, but did not touch the town. When the 24 hours granted to the garrison in which to surrender had elapsed, It" fore commencing the bombardment, the Japanese signalled, "Are you now quite ready, gentlemen." The German reply was in the form of whizzirg bullets, which grazed lhe signalman's moustache.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15769, 18 November 1914, Page 8
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