Through Reuter's Agency, Tokio, Sept. 30.
It is officially stated that a por tion of the Japanese fleet landed a force and occupied Laoshan harbour and places in the neighbourhood of Tsingtao. They took four field guns which had been abandoned by the Germans. The posi occupied were after small parties of troops.
Aviators who made flights with two biplanes and one monoplane assert that they hit the German vessels with bombs from a height of 700 metres. Although the wings of their machines were riddled with bullet holes and the stem of one was brok-
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