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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. Qingdao. ... Japan occupied the city and the surrounding province during the Siege of Tsingtao. In 1915, ...
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.
From April 1917 until January 1920, just under a thousand of the 3,900 soldiers of the Imperial German Army, Imperial German Navy, German Marine Corps and Austro-Hungarian Navy who had been captured at the Siege of Tsingtao in November 1914 were imprisoned at the camp.
Damaged Sifang Workshop after the Siege of Tsingtao. Panoramic view of the Syfang Workshop in 1914. The building on the left was the Syfang Railway Station. Interior view of the factory during the first Japanese occupation.
The four small gunboats Iltis, Jaguar, Tiger, Luchs and the torpedo boats SMS Taku and S90 of the East Asia Squadron that had been left at Tsingtao were scuttled by their crews just prior to the capture of the base by Japan in November 1914, during the Siege of Tsingtao. Four small river gunboats and some two dozen merchantmen and small vessels ...