The first comprehensive review of tne present situation in Tsingtao, has been received in the shape of a report pes, "tke orna Daly News? correspondent im that city. only news hitherto received from Tsingtao has been im the form of brie} releases and Japanese units.
Tsingtao, Jan. 14.
The Japanese Navy appears to have completed the occupation of Tsingtao. Detachments of marines have been quartered in various Chinese Government and Administration buildings throughout the city, while Army units are now being placed ashore and billeted both in buildings which have been taken over and in large Japanese properties such as the Grand and Strand hotels, schools and so on.
"Troops are now being landed in the Inner Harbour, army units, artillery, engineers, transport and other services being unloaded from transports and marched off to billets established at the old German Barracks and other places, while Iltis Huk beach and the Chungshan Road pier, after three days of intense activity, are quiet again. With the breaching of the booms of sunken ships in the harbour and wharf areas, transports are now able to come alongside the wharves to discharge their streams of men, horses, mules, carts, guns, and all the other paraphernalia of war, Thirty men-of-war, including an Bireraft carrier, a heavy cruiser, several light cruisers, destroyers, minesweepers and submarines accompanied the convoy of about thirty transport ships. Locomotives from the S.MR. are being unloaded and it is likely that rolling stock has also been shipped here to use on the Tsingtao-Tsinanfu line, all the rolling stock formerly used having been moved away by the Chinese, The two bridges on the K.T.R. line, which were damaged by the Chinese, should not take long to repair and the service to Tsinan should be resumed shortly—although probably only for military purposes for the time being.
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