Word: tsingtao
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that War was declared, the German light cruiser Emden lay in the Yellow Sea, off Tsingtao, China. Capt. Karl von Muller delivered to his crew an oration, elegant yet fiery. The band played "Die Wacht am Rhein" and the Emden cleared decks to commence her single-handed war on enemy shipping...
Packard is Packard. An automobile left Tsingtao last week for Peking and points west-the points being vague oases in the bandit-infested, scantily charted Gobi desert. Camels and asses had crossed it before, but never a stock touring car. The leader of the expedition is Mark L. Moody, head of the Packard Motor Agency of Shanghai. He and his companions plan to hunt bear, elk, antelope; to meet and visit Scientist Roy Chapman Andrews somewhere in the Gobi
...Tsinan efficient professional Japanese troops drove, last week, ten times their number of ragged, nondescript Chinese soldiery. Right or wrong, the Japanese Commander, General Fukuda, struck blow after crushing blow with a mailed fist constituted by 5,000 Japanese troops which he recently brought up from the seaport of Tsingtao (TIME, May 14). When 6,000 desperate Chinese took refuge in the old walled quarter of Tsinan, last week, and later attempted with great bravery to fight their way out, Japanese machine gunners mowed down every man of 20 successive Chinese charges which were launched by the besieged...
...embassy at St. Petersburg (now Leningrad). In 1912 he was made counselor of legation in Peking and was charge d'affaires there when the War broke out. He worked hard to prevent Japan from entering the conflict, even going so far as to offer Tokyo the cession of Tsingtao on his own responsibility; the Berlin government, however, refused to sanction the step. Virtually isolated by the Allies, all his messages subject to censorship, his next dilemma was to warn his government of the approaching Japanese declaration of war. This he did by sending an ingenious, uncoded telegram, so harmless...
Evacuation. The Japanese Government, feeling that the risks of disorders in Shantung Province had been removed by the shifting of the Chinese civil war front to the Yangtze Valley, ordered its troops to evacuate Tsinan and Tsingtao in that province...