A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard

Capitolo 60

you/he/she had clearly been shown, and it was illustrated subsequently 17
October from the destruction of four German destroyers by the Dutch
you coast along from the Intrepid light cruiser it accompanied within four British
destroyers;  but the next exposure of the to gun-be able naval had to be to
our expense.

Among the inherent advantages that the adhesion of Great Britain
brought to the agreement it was the intervention of Japan that, separately
from his/her alliance with us, you/he/she had never forgiven Germany the part her
taken in to strip Japan of the fruits of his/her victory on China in
1894, and it considered an erected offense the naval base that Germany
you/he/she had established to Tsingtau and the taking that she had acquired on north
Pacific islands. Around August 15 Japan required in eight days the
surrender Far of the rental lease of Tsingtau and the evacuation of Oriental
waters from German war ships. Anybody answer, is clearly returned, but the
German squadron under Von Spee wisely Tsingtau I damage in anticipation of
his/her investment of the Japanese. It started the 27, and troops were
disembarked 2 September:  the 23 an English possible it arrived from
Wei-have-wei to co-operate, and gradually the lines of investment and
the heavy artillery was drawn nearbyer. The end assault was sheltered for
7 November, but the Germans prevented him/it from surrender;  there was
3000 prisoners out of an original garrison of 5000, and Germany is last
foreign base on which she had spent £20,000,000, passed in the
the hands of enemy. Australian troops had already occupied without serious
opposition Guinea German New, the archipelago of Bismarck and the
Gilbert and Islands of Caroline, while Samoa surrendered him to a New Zelanda
forces, and the Islands of Marshall to the Japanese.

The squadron of Von Spee had gone away so without a German naval base;  but one
of his/her vases to show was that there was still a career for a pillager,
and the other ones were to show the paradox that hands neutral