Word: tsingtao
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...Tsinan efficient professional Japanese troops drove, last week, ten times their number of ragged, nondescript Chinese soldiery. Right or wrong, the Japanese Commander, General Fukuda, struck blow after crushing blow with a mailed fist constituted by 5,000 Japanese troops which he recently brought up from the seaport of Tsingtao (TIME, May 14). When 6,000 desperate Chinese took refuge in the old walled quarter of Tsinan, last week, and later attempted with great bravery to fight their way out, Japanese machine gunners mowed down every man of 20 successive Chinese charges which were launched by the besieged...
...embassy at St. Petersburg (now Leningrad). In 1912 he was made counselor of legation in Peking and was charge d'affaires there when the War broke out. He worked hard to prevent Japan from entering the conflict, even going so far as to offer Tokyo the cession of Tsingtao on his own responsibility; the Berlin government, however, refused to sanction the step. Virtually isolated by the Allies, all his messages subject to censorship, his next dilemma was to warn his government of the approaching Japanese declaration of war. This he did by sending an ingenious, uncoded telegram, so harmless...
Evacuation. The Japanese Government, feeling that the risks of disorders in Shantung Province had been removed by the shifting of the Chinese civil war front to the Yangtze Valley, ordered its troops to evacuate Tsinan and Tsingtao in that province...
Shantung Seized. Perhaps the most striking single event of the week in China was the sending of 2,000 Japanese troops to Tsingtao (Shantung), where, it was announced they will "protect Japanese lives and property." Observers thought it not unlikely that the post World War claims of Japan to Shantung, a rich province, will now be permanently revived...
Shanghai. Chinese workers in a Japanese cotton mill at Shanghai went on strike, as had their countrymen in Japanese employ at Tsingtao (TIME, June 8). Court proceedings against the ringleaders were taken, convictions obtained...