Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-07
FORTRESS OF TsINosTAu
 HAS SURRENDERED
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 reduced to a scale of some 200 square miles, as compared with the whole continent of Europe, but on that ac- | count they have been none the less | interesting. Aeroplanes and all other l accompaniments of modern warfare | have figured in both the Japanese and | the German operations.
 | The strength of the attacking force, | as compared with the little garrison Of | some 1000 men and the few German vessels at Kia-Chow, was so dispro- | portionate that at the beginning of the l campaign it was taken for granted that | the German possession would soon fall.
 Garrison Made Remarkable Defense.
 The surprise was that so small . force was able to hold out so long. and 1 inhict a considerabFbe loss both to the land and naval forcces of the allies. | Reports from various sources pteced N,gether indicate that the allies loss around Kiao-Chow has been upwards of 2.O00 men and several second rate warships.
 Women Divers Offered Services The details of the movements have been secreszbut the first general op- | was that sweeping of the waters around Kiao-Chow for minesf which | the Germans had laid. In this connee- \ tion a hundred Japanese women shell divers offered their seFvicces, thinking 1 that they, unseen by the enemy. could dive and release the mines. But the l offer was declined since the Japanese | law prohibited the employment or | women in war-like operations During | the mine sweeping campaign at least one of the Japanese mine dragging boats was blown up. The next gen. | eral move on the part of the Japanese was to seize the German-owned ra1- way running west from Tsing-Tau into | the province of Shan-Tung. This was | done under violent protest from the | Chinese government, which held that | it was a violation of the integrity of l China, but the Japanese went ahead | with their operations
 The number of the expeditiouary forces has never been of9cially d. vulged, but 1t is said to have been up- l wards of 80. GOO men. A British de- | tachment of some 800 South Wales Borderers and 400 Indian Sikhs, under command of BFigadier General Na- 1 thaniel w Bernardiston, commander of the North China forces, was at their
 head and is said to form part of the | center of the Japanese line in the tn- | Vestment of Tsirg-Tau. | Fighting Was Continuous Fighting continued from the middle | of September internationally until the
 fall of the fortreas today, During this | period both the German and the Jap | anese warships and airships engaged in the bombardment of each others positions.
 On one o: the most severe of these
 engagements on October 1 it was an
 nounced that the Japanese loss weS
 l, zoo killed and 800 wounded It vas
 then reported that the Japanese could
 await the arrival of siege guns before
 continuing operations. At various 1 times German losses were reported up to a score or more.
 Japanese Naval Losses It was on the night of october es that the Japanese had finally installeo , their siege guns under cover of Prince Henry Mountain and other hills near the town The German fortresses tn-
 cluded three lines of defense. The hrst Of these, on the outskirts, appears to have been evacuated some time agc and the garrison concentrated in Forts ] Moftke and Bismarck and Hts, which occupy commanding positions on tne
 range of precipitous hills tnHt circle
 the harbor city. The Germans atsc , had five forts exclusively for shore de- fense.
 The heights back of the city are pen : etrated only by the railway line and II
 probably is through this path that tnt s allies proceeded into Tsing-Tals oTet the defending Actresses had peep si- e An interesting document in connee' . ton with the fall of Tzfng Tau Is tho Q proclamation which the German gov I ernor posted on August 22. In this n'
 Would Not Retreat \ Never shall we surrender te. ? smallest bit of ground over which te'
 German flag is flying. From thil
 place, where we with love and encts
 have endeavored durlng the M1t 4' . years to shape a little Germany ArfQH' q the seas, we shall not reEreaA 4x tN' enemy wants Tsing- Tau na GsA9A nozn'
 and take it." f
 In taking it. the Japanese have a4a.' . had revenge for certain phases Of thei
 way with China 20 years aga Nicto | rious. she was forced, at the instigA
 ton of Germany. to give up Port Ar . thur-her main fruit of yictory--Whic Il eventually became Russian. s Ten years later-in 1se4-'05-Japai = fought Russia and again took Port AT d thur. Now, after another Interval . q ten years, in association with Britin e forces, Japan has seized the GerTna - possession of I<iao-ClzoW and remove D the thorn which ranked in her side fl
 kuro dacadAe.