Peking, Nov. 18.
The Japanese Minister has officially notified the Chinese Government concerning th> fall of Tsingtao on the 7th and its formal transfer to Japan on the 10th instant, and at the same time, Dr. N.- Hioki made certain conditional proposals about this territory and requests an early answer. President Yuan held a meeting with Mr. Hsu Shih-chang, Secretary of State, Vice-President defend their enced territory which was taken from China by compulsion in 1898 to the last man and horse, and that as the Germans had spent so much money and brain in building up the beautiful port which is called "little Germany " in the Far East, their last desperate plan was to blow up the entire town by high explosives so that only a piece of barren ground would be left to the victors.
In the eyes of th> Chinese especially those officials and students who were educated in Germany, the feeble resistance of the German gar-risen on the night of the 6th instant and the subsequent unconditional surrender to the Japanese is a serious loss of German prestige which cannot be regained for a long time to come, for most Chinese believe that "Germans will never surrender" even in such a dangerous and isolate ed position as Tsingtao.
This writer says that he has been informed by a German gentleman
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