Japanese men-of-war. patrolling outside Tsingtao, suddenly disappeared and showed up in Lingshan Bay, which is about 25 miles from Tsingtao, and landed a detachment of about 80 men at Lingshan village to cause the rumour that they were going along Kiaochow Bay to Kiaochow, a small town on the Kiaochow-Tsinan Railway about 40 miles from Lingshan village, from which place they could cut off any anticipated retreat of Chinese troops at Tsingtao, Chengyang and Tsimo.
Another rumour was to the effect Chowtsun Sung., Dec, 29.
Christmas Eve was a memorable time for this town and district, From early morning air raids were in progress at the cities of Tsowping and Changsan, and later in the day at Chowtsun, A pastor of the church was killed by falling debris on the premises at Tsowping. A number of casualties were brought in to the Foster Hospital Chowtsun. During the three bombing raids to which Chowtsun was subjected, not only "were a large number of bombs dropped on the railway station but eight fell also on the Foster Hospital grounds, and on the adjoining property of the English Baptist Mission.
There were, however, no casualties. Outlying buildings were badly damaged and of course hundreds of panes of glass were broken, The hospital staff missionaries, both Protestant and Catholic, are all safe and well. Japanese property here, as well as at Hungshan, Poshan and Heishan (Paton) had previously been ruined,
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