Word: tsingtao
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...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...
Johnson On the Spot. The occasion on which he was welcomed to China as Minister was a landmark in the course of U. S.-Chinese relations. At a vast, formal tea at the Grand Hotel in beautiful Tsingtao, the city's acting mayor rose, rustled his black silk gown, made a pretty, set speech in Chinese. An interpreter laboriously translated. Then Mr. Johnson got up, paused, bowed to hosts and guests. The audience set itself for a weary, long-winded speech which most of them would not understand. With a grin, Nelson Johnson proposed a toast and made...
...August 2, 1914, the cruiser Emden lay in the tranquil, mountain-embraced harbor of Tsingtao, China, with its crew assembled on deck. Captain Karl von Müller, a man of Prussian gallantry and Goth insolence, read to the sailors a wireless message announcing war's declaration...
...resort just below the Great Wall, to Singapore, the big British naval base at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, the coast of Eastern Asia rumbled last week with warlike activity. At Tientsin Japanese soldiers tightened their two-weeks-old blockade on the British Concession; at Chefoo and Tsingtao Japanese officials sponsored anti-British demonstrations; at Shanghai British Ambassador to China Sir Archibald Clark Kerr was surrounded with a heavy guard after "terrorists" had threatened his life; the Japanese captured one Chinese port, closed another, attacked two more (Foochow, Wenchow); at Hong Kong British troops feverishly erected barbed wire...
...black bourses where Japanese currency is bought and sold at a discount. This is not only an economic disadvantage but a loss of face. But even if the Japanese are able to clear the money-changers out of Tientsin, there remain Shanghai and the illegal black bourses in Tsingtao and other Chinese cities in which there are no foreign concessions or settlements. And if Shanghai were seized the legal black bourse could move to British-owned Hong Kong...