Word: tsingtao
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...emotion dominated the mind of Master Sergeant Elmer C. Bender when he crawled out of his bunk on the morning of October 19, 1948, it was boredom. The sergeant, a debonair, dark-browed Marine Corps pilot, was at the U.S. Naval base at Tsingtao, China, and the Chinese, it was true, were having themselves some kind of a war only a few miles away. But it wasn't Sergeant Bender's war. He decided to get in a little flying time, asked a big, tousle-headed Navy chief electrician's mate named William C. Smith...
...into a single-engined Stinson monoplane and buzzed off from an airstrip near Tsingtao. They vanished completely. The Navy sent out searching planes. In the months which followed, both the Navy and the State Department repeatedly asked the Chinese Communists for information about them. The Communists simply did not reply. But three weeks ago, after holding them captive for 19 months, the Chinese "People's Liberation Army" put the two men on a steamship bound for Hong Kong...
...People's Army had grabbed them almost as soon as they landed-ignominiously out of gas-on a beach near Tsingtao; to their amazement they were treated simultaneously as prisoners of war and as friends and possible converts. They were marched off to a distant village, but were neither jailed nor put to work. Their guards-soldiers, who "would have made a Marine top sergeant blow his top"-supplied them with rice, gave them fish and meat when it was available...
...Control of seven key ports in North China. With Anglo-U.S. blessing bestowed in Yalta's secret agreements, the Russians are already entrenched at Port Arthur and Dairen. In addition they want Chinwang-tao, Chefoo, Weihaiwei, Tsingtao and Haichow. They would thus be stationed from the Great Wall south along the Shantung Peninsula, threatening the U.S. position in Korea and Japan. ¶ More food from Manchuria to Russia, though much of China faces famine. ¶ A labor force of 500,000 Chinese to work on projects in the Soviet Union. ¶ More rights for non-Chinese minorities (Turkis...
...coup was businesslike and icy on both sides. Nobody was arrested. Consul General Clubb destroyed some of his codes and dispatches, moved the rest without interference into his residence next door. In Washington, the Department of State signaled for the orderly closing down of consulates in Peking, Tientsin, Shanghai, Tsingtao and Nanking. Nobody was sure when or how the 135 members of the consular families would be granted exit permits. For the first time in 105 years, the U.S. would shortly be without listening posts in China...