THE FALL OF TSING-TAO

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2306, 13 November 1914, Page 5

THE FALL OF TSING-TAO

JAPANESE OFFICIAL ACCOUNT

FINAL DESPERATE. ASSAEfe

Toklo, November 10. ■ ■ The official account of the taking of \ xsing-tao' is couched in most modest \ terms, but nevertheless shows that the ] storming was characterised by the same I disregard for life as was evidenced in i the- Russian war. . ■ j • A detachment of Engineers who. ex- : ploded the enemy's magazines led the i assault at a heavy cost of lives. :•. The I Japanoso mounted the parapets amid a j hail of bullets from magazine guns and~l blinded by fire shells which the enemy j oxploded to reveal the .position-of the : assailants. . ' ■ . , ] After Fort Moltko was taken the i Japanese were ordered to halt, jynd ! thus deadly encounters in the streets ; of the city were avoided. ■ i WARSHIPS CAPTURED. '\ Poking, Novembor-11: ! Tho y Japanose captured a destroyer, j two gunboats, and five transports at > Tsing-tao. They hope to raiso the i liaiserin Elisabeth. . i JAPANESE TORPEDO BOAT MINED -'i AND SUNK. . ~, j London, iVovdniber 11. i .A Japanese torpedo boat, whilst on- i| Raged in mine-sweeping, was sunk at Kiaochau. The majority of tho crow I jvsr« saved. •■' " '■ ■ \