THE SIEGE OF TSING-TAU.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 10, 13 January 1915, Page 7

THE SIEGE OF TSING-TAU.

PARTICIPANT AT BRISBANE. Among the passengers by the steamer Taiyuan, which arrived last week | in Australia, from Hongkong, was ! Captain M. J. Colyer, an officer of the Australian Commonwealth Military Forces, who lately went throng i the strenuous experiences of the siege of Tsing-tau. Captain Colyer went to China ih months ago, and meanwhile retained his commission as an Australian officer. When war broke out, he promptly volunteered his services, an wns attached to the British headquarters staff of the Expeditionary Force to Kiao-chau. He took part m the lighting, and subsequent capture ot Tsing-tau, the stronghold. Captain Colyer was among the men who figured on the casualty list, his obin being laid open with a fragment from a shrapnel shell, which burs near him on the day previous to the capitulation of the foit. _ _ Regarding the fighting qualities ot the Japanese, Captain Colyer is strongly convinced that, like the British, t'hev required no urging, nor did the officers or men spare themselves. On one occasion of the triumphant entry of the victorious troops into Tsingtau there was no mistaking the varied emotions of the _ Germans. While the Japanese were viewed with to,lterance, the Germans’ hatred of the British was plainly manifested.