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The siege of Tsingtao (German: Belagerung von Tsingtau; Japanese: 青島の戦い; simplified Chinese: 青岛战役; traditional Chinese: 青島戰役) was the attack on the German port of Qingdao (Tsingtao) from Jiaozhou Bay during World War I by Japan and the United Kingdom.
Location of Qingdao City jurisdiction in Shandong. ... Japan occupied the city and the surrounding province during the Siege of Tsingtao. ... Today, Qingdao is a ...
After the Siege of Tsingtao in 1914, the building became the Japanese occupation headquarters until 1922, when China regained sovereignty over its province. Before and during World War II , Jioazhou Governor's Hall was again used by the Japanese as the seat of their occupation regime from 1938 to 1945.
The most significant military action was the careful and well-executed Siege of Qingdao in China, but smaller actions were also fought at Bita Paka and Toma in German New Guinea. All other German and Austro-Hungarian possessions in Asia and the Pacific fell without bloodshed.
The Siege of Tsingtao (Qingdao) concluded with the surrender of German colonial forces on 7 November 1914. In September 1914, by request of the Imperial Japanese Army, the Japanese Red Cross Society put together three squads, each composed of one surgeon and twenty nurses, which were dispatched to Europe on a five-month assignment.
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During World War I the territory was conquered by a joint Anglo-Japanese task force during the 1914 Siege of Tsingtao and the victorious Allies of World War I awarded the continuation of the lease to the Empire of Japan over the objections of the Republic of China. The territory reverted to Chinese control in 1922.
Maurice Farman seaplanes used during the siege of Tsingtao. On 27 August 1914, the 2nd Fleet under Vice-Admiral Sadakichi Kato, was sent to blockade the German colony of Tsingtao on the Shandong peninsula. The 2nd fleet consisted mainly of older warships with the pre-dreadnought battleship Suwo being the flagship. Later on October 31, the ...