GERMANY IN THE PACIFIC.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1723, 9 June 1917, Page 4

GERMANY IN THE PACIFIC.

Tsing-tao, the port in China which was captured by the British and Japanese from Germany in the course of the present war, is described by a recent Auckland visitor to the place as having been wonderfully fort died. “The surrounding hills,” he says, “were laid out with huge brick and reinforced concrete pits and chambers for heavy guns, with revolving armoured turrets for smaller guns, with underground ammunition chambers, mess rooms, guard rooms, and observation posts, all connected through the fabric of the hills by narrow, concrete-lined passages, along which one can walk from one fortified position to another without coming to the surface of the ground at all. The place is also covered with perfectly-built trenches, the edges of which are still lined with the original sandbags, as they were used two years ago.” There can be no question as to Germany’s intentions in the Pacific on the part of any who realise the purpose of such fortified naval bases as that created at Tsing-tao.