Word: tsingtao
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Japan's naval blockade spread last week to include all 2,150 miles of the China coast, omitting British Hong Kong, Portuguese Macao, and internationally crucial Tsingtao, though by week's end no important ship had yet been stopped or sunk...
President Roosevelt meanwhile was taking no chances with U. S. warships in Chinese waters. The U. S. S. Augusta, flagship of the Asiatic Fleet, was ordered out of Tsingtao and steamed rapidly to Vladivostok on a "goodwill" voyage to Soviet Russia. Even more pointedly the U. S. S. Tulsa, which was steaming toward Tientsin to give her gobs the pleasure of shore leave amid its Chinese night spots, was ordered to turn tail and steam for Chefoo...
...three days I have been try ing to kill the Premier." Simultaneously in Japanese political circles the more or less gagged Parliament was reported so restive at the risks the Cabinet is running with its pro-German and pro-Italian pacts (TIME. Dec. 7) and its seizure of Tsingtao, that Japan's dominant militarists were about ready to thrash "those Parliamentary cowards" by having Parlia ment dissolved...
...withdraw its marines from the Shantung seaport, release its Chinese prisoners, restore the stolen Chinese documents. When opportunist Ambassador Kawagoe suggested that instead he and Foreign Minister Chang should discuss "broad Sino-Japanese problems." General Chang frostily replied: "Continuance of negotiations are useless while Japanese forces remain ashore in Tsingtao and while your Government continues to back the Mongols and Manchukuoans attacking Suiyuan" (TIME...
...into Tsingtao piled 600 more Japanese marines. When their commander made secret demands which local Chinese officials pluckily rejected as "unreasonable and fantastic," Japanese war boats rushed into port to menace Tsingtao further with their big guns. The Japanese marines moved forward to seize the city's water works, then moved back as 3,000 Chinese troops approached. Sudden freezing weather came and 36,000 locked-out Chinese millworkers shivered, railing at the warm Japanese millowners...