Gen. Kamio's Camp, Oct. 29.
So silently have the operations against Tsingtao proceeded—since the Germans o2ased throwing shells away by the thousand—that there have been hours during the day when one found it difficult to realiz> that a siege was in progress, To combatants and correspondents the past week has proved rath: r monotonous, to the sick and wounded it must have been delightful. I can imagine nothing more trying to anybody in pain than the constant booming of big guns. The great war, as worked out in Shantung, as, indeed, been extraordinarily inexpensive in the matter of li I am not allowed to quote fight but I can say that the total of sick, wounded and killed is low. The seamy side of the siege has, in this respect, boon far less depressing than one imagined would be the case—though what it may be a very few days from now thers is no s ing. Judging from the way the German aeroplanes hover constantly over the British, as though in confirmation of the report that the defenders of Tsingtao intend to exterminate them if they can, and from the small amount of shrapnel that they have used, the British Red Cross Bos may be very much fuller than it is at the present moment.
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