. The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others. ac-company staff members of the Japanese and British forcesto Prinz Heinrich Berg. When they reached the summit,they saw the theater of war laid out before them like amap. To the left were Japanese and British cruisers in theYellow Sea, preparing for the bombardment. Below wasthe Austrian cruiser Kaiserin Elizabeth, steaming about theharbor, while to the right one could see the Kiaochow coast,with forts, redoubts, the entrenched Japanese and Britishcam
. The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others. ac-company staff members of the Japanese and British forcesto Prinz Heinrich Berg. When they reached the summit,they saw the theater of war laid out before them like amap. To the left were Japanese and British cruisers in theYellow Sea, preparing for the bombardment. Below wasthe Austrian cruiser Kaiserin Elizabeth, steaming about theharbor, while to the right one could see the Kiaochow coast,with forts, redoubts, the entrenched Japanese and Britishcamps. They had just couched themselves comfortably betweenlarge, jagged rocks, where they felt sure they were not indirect line with the enemys guns, when suddenly therewas a flash as if some one had turned a large golden mirroron the field down below to the right. A little columnof black smoke drifted away from one of the Japanesetrenches, and a minute later they heard the sharp reportof a field-gun. Gentlemen, the show has started, saidthe British captain, as he removed his cap and adjusted 2 Correspondent of The Minneapolis Journal, 172. JAPANESE INFAXTRY IN .vt 173 IN THE GERMAN COLONIES AND ON THE SEA his glasses. No sooner had he said this than reports ofguns came from all directions, with a continuous rumbleas if a giant bowling-alley were in use. Everywhere thevalley at the rear of Tsingtau was glowing with flashesfrom discharging guns. At the same time, great clouds ofbluish-white smoke suddenly sprang up around the Germanbatteries where Japanese shells had burst. Over near thegreater harbor of Tsingtau could be seen flames licking uplarge oil-tanks, which they afterwards learned had been seton fire by the Germans and not by bursting shells. Warships in the Yellow Sea now opened fire on litisfort, and for three hours we continually used our glasseson Tsingtau and the warships. They watched the effectsof the Japanese fire until the boom of guns from a Germanfort on a
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