Word: tsingtao
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...flung radio network of the U. S. Navy crackled last week with messages of doom. The cruiser Pittsburgh, flagship of the Asiatic Fleet, heard its death-sentence at Tsingtao, China. Fatal news reached the cruiser Rochester, oldest U. S. fighting ship (TIME, Sept. 1) and flag-bearer of the Special Service (Caribbean) Squadron, at Corinto, Nicaragua. Lying at Philadelphia and Norfolk the battleships Florida and Utah received word that they were to be scrapped, the Utah taken to sea as target for aerial bombs and big guns. Sixteen destroyers were notified that their lives would soon be over. Twenty-five...
Hero of the week was a General Liu Chien-nien (see cut), a lesser war lord who controls the strategic Chefoo area, 100 miles from Tsingtao. For the weeks past he has maintained a delicate neutrality between Northerners and Nationalists. Fortnight ago the Nationalist Government sent Liu Chien-nien rifles and silver dollars. They were gratefully received. The Nationalist Government ordered him to attack the northern armies. Liu Chien-nien refused...
...arrived just before she died.) The snug hill-bound harbor of Weihaiwei on the northeast coast of Shantung Province, faces-across the Yellow Sea-onetime Russian stronghold of Port Arthur. It was leased to Great Britain in 1898 to compensate for Russia's Port and Germany's Tsingtao. No a military watchdog, Weihaiwei has assumed new importance as an aircraft base, busies itself coaling Pacific warships in its beautiful harbor, welcomes ailing British sailors to its mild climate and excellent sanatorium...
...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