HOW TSING-TAU FELL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15821, 19 January 1915, Page 8

HOW TSING-TAU FELL.

PLUCK OF THE JAPANESE

"LIKE SO MANY Hl^fß BULLETS ' 'j&8

The Japanese liner Tango M artl aad th. " steamer Taiyuan, both of wi.K.h arrived - Sydney last week, brought a bud™ * interesting new-? concerning the fin ■■ * f Tsinc-tau. ■*:

It is stated that the be* ez.iig j and British armi o; ha ! arranged to m °*" a third position llC ar th« h.nna£*S resses oh the night of N. ember 6 }2 a detachment of the fir-' J-.paneaj-'S had already occupied th- i .jty, ~.77 the course of the day. and <"■mmnxtf** para to rv work f r the hi - „.„„„ 3* r- 1 ' ••«ilit. *l« Germans destroyed t.e 1., ~,,,„ , /** tenes, in front of Kiau i' a] B B y . explosives. During th,- dav ~.-. aer'JS flew out of the German calnp '•„ a 'f 3 * westerly direction. and then' v. a . **?? of its return to the str.>i,g :i ,.|.j It *** subsequent!- ascertained 1(-l ~" m **» alighted in Kiangsu Province-, «££*!* airman was detained. "

The left wing 01 the i,<-,.-,-,., second c-ntre, which pre— • ~, i'^,•*****'* * 1 1 ' tke ch«. tral fortress, enaiiy destiou-d lhe * outer tranches and wire erup-uJ ,"* the central forties ui-,, ," , .. °» Other entanglements were cing the way for the assau.t ■ - e ;'°l*BAt 1.30 a.m. Un November ; a 3 attack on the evntial ;.,-t!<-.-,< _." *•<* nod out. the charge on ;..,- ,- fffl ,|* made with two coinpau.es ~i .. , ™£ *•* section oi Japans a; ~„: t ".'..'V %•*** on the enemy* position" u t( y occupying important part- ,"• i ~ f!!S? •-ion, capturing about 200 IM--Js* • the-fortification fell. '" ita Enemy's Batteries Open ?»,, The enemy's batteries, v. •. ,h re™,- . silent up to this time fire, and the detachment oi j*?* 4 many killed and wounded Tut l£J°* detachment pushed on a~; =," ■ ■ P 3ll "** tion of the fortification at - xT?^"**' The right wing of the c.-:.tral d B -„a ment carried out a charge on , .„ "«, fortresses. The char.- met «, u , resistance by the eu-r.iv. «■£££& shower of s he!U and "buh.-t, £♦„ n attacker,, causing casualties Of Ter ft killed and wounded to i)# adSS troops. The detachment took rS2S of the fortress at 5.10 , „ l detachment after a dashing atUek°£* "' possession .of the northern' n.rtrw—Ti Hsiao KangMian. ''"resw, of Shortly afterwards the ~;,.. «»-." Fort litis were occupied bv th- £$ central pi .rty. The he.ghts along fitmarck Fort fell to the advance rf the second antral party. f n thi.™ Z German lorufication of T=:n~ tau w', w in two at its central position. * White Flag Hoisted. As the allies' detachment ■** about l a charge the coast fortresses, situated at £ month of Haipoho. at 7 a.m., , be <3M mans hoisted the white fiag. Ja liaße3e sappers ruthed on Moltke Fort and oaa. pied the batteries at /.15 a.m. oa \oTe»r--the COn Moltke litis line of JS& the Germans hoisted the «hue nag, ini subsequently sex,: an envoy, and proiiOMfll surrender. "TT At 9.30 a.m. the ex German Governor Meyer Waldeck. published a w ar bulleth after the fall of Tsing-tau. in which £ ' said the Japanese came on like so mao human bullets, and the Germans gJ. rendered manfully when all resistance be came useless. The number of prisoner* captured from th-, night of November 6te - the morning of November 1 was 67 officers and 2429 men. The Germans had 230 killed and 600 wounded. It is reports that Japan and England have decided i« open Tsing-tau "commerce next spring. " Jsh*".'i ■ I*4; i-

Australiaa Officer's Story. •

I Captain M. J. C. Golyer. a native of I byclnev. and formerly an officer of the Australian Intelligence Corps, who was attached to the British Tsing-Uu Expeditionary Force, was a passenger b7the I taiyuan. and had an interesting story to tell. e J j*i=

Captain Colyer. who left fry-deer abast--18 months ago to take the' position 0! Professor of Engineering at the Chant-da "■■■ University, joined the British garrison under Brigadier-General Barnadi/ton a l Tientsin. The British force left \*ei-hei-wei on September 21, and next d*v arrived at Laoshan Bay. wh-re an enormous force of the allies' transports and f men-of-war had gathered. On September 27 the force advanced to Lutine, where,,' the first exciting incident took place. A supply colun.n. instead of taking a round to the east .ind then south—which wooH have brought it behind a line of hillsadvanced due south along the road- -i|§fc| Surprised by a Gunboat. 'WWI. After the column had been in sight of ' the sea for some time, the sergeant-major raised his glasses to examine what he thought was a small tug, and as he din" " so there was a puff of smoke, and a shell fell practically at his fret. Immediately' he gave the column orders to scatter, and the drivers to retreat. The German gunboat had got the range accuraielv, but had miscalculated th* speed at "which ? frightened mules can travel Then snells followed, but kept on clearing the tail of the column by a few yards, rn the mean- - time a party of Tommies got away into \ \ the hills and missed tie road, and ran into i; some Japanese who a: first mistook them for Germans, one man in consequence bo-' •" : ing severely peppered- The force I*- remained at Wangchiachun, about five mii« f north-east of the forts on litis Hill until - October 11. Hatred of the British. The (Jerman cannonading was incessant 3 In 24 hours, for example, the Tsing-taaef-forts fired by actual count 3015 shells, without, however, a single result. The ..", Japanese were splendid soldiers, and' one ; could h3vp no othrr feeline but that of •"-■ warm admiration for the manner in which they had fought at T.-ingtau. which was - a very difficult position indeed to take. When the allied forces marched into Tsing-. -\. tan a high German official spat in front 0?'."!' General Raniadiston. and another h*4 " made a most offensive <;estur*. Their U hatred lor the British was intense.