Crossword-Solution: TSINGTAU 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Among the incidental advantages which the adhesion of Great Britain brought to the Entente was the intervention of Japan, which, apart from its alliance with us, had never forgiven Germany the part she took in depriving Japan of the fruits of her victory over China in 1894, and regarded as a standing offence the naval base which Germany had established at Tsingtau and the hold she had acquired on North Pacific islands.

Von Spee's squadron was thus left without a German naval base; but one of its vessels was to show that there was still a career for a raider, and the others were to demonstrate the paradox that neutral ports might be more useful than bases of their own, inasmuch as they could not be treated like Tsingtau.

THE FALL OF TSINGTAU JEFFERSON JONES A remarkable study of war and diplomacy in the Orient that With the "should be read by every American who is interested in the Japanese future of our status in the Far East."--_New York Tribune._ Illustrated.

Considering a landing at Tsingtau, it should be noted that there has not been provided a sufficient number of disembarking boats.

Tokio, the capital of the Japanese Empire, has re-emerged into prominence owing to the celebrations over the fall of Tsingtau.