Word: tsingtao
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Japan's alternative would be a tough one, too-to reduce the flanking bases, while her aircraft, operating from Yap, Palau and other bases in the mandated islands, went to work on Amboina and Surabaya. In 1914, Tsingtao, garrisoned by about 6,000 German troops and wide open to attack, held out against the Japanese and British for more than two months. Better munitioned and better located (on an island) than Tsingtao, Hong Kong is garrisoned by 12,000 crack British troops. Once having silenced Hong Kong, Surabaya and Amboina, the Japanese Fleet might swing around the east side...
...nearest Japanese naval base, Tsingtao, Japanese authorities hurried to apologize and offer $200 in damages to the British Consulate. The Consulate wired the Embassy. The Embassy, thinking the loss of face and the joke worth much more than $200, marked the case as closed...