KIAU CHAU.
HOW TSING TAO WAS TAKEN. TOKIO, Nov. 11. The official account of the fall of Tsingtao is couched in the most modest terras; nevertheless it shows that the storming of the forts was characterised with the same disregard of life as was evidenced in the Russian war. A detachment of engineers who blew up the enemy's magazines led the assault. At a heavy cost of life the Japanese mounted the parapets, amid a hail of bullets from magazine guns and blinded by the fire of shells, which the enemy exploded to reveal the position of their assailants. After fort Moltke bad been taken the Japanese ordered a halt, thus a deadly encounter in the streets of the city was avoided. ■ JAPANESE MAKE BIG CAPTURE. > PEKIN, Nov. 11. The Japanese captured a German destroyer, two gunboats,, and five transports at Tsingtao, and hope to raise the cruiser Kaiserin Elizabeth.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15503, 13 November 1914, Page 8
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