Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-11-12 | Page 2 | Garrison Allowed the Honors of War

GARRISON ALLOWED THE HDMDffi OF WAR Japanese Appreciate Fact That Germans Made Heroic Defense. XETT YORK, Xor. 11. The Ka?t an-5 West news bureau toda7 made public the following' cablegram from Tokto: "Permitted to capitulate, Instead1 of surrendering sur-rendering unconditionally, the former gov. ernor of Tsingtau and his officers were. In compliance with the gracious wish of the fJapanese emperor, allowed to wea. their swords and maintain soldiers' honor. Captain Meyer Waldeck eaid: " Tour or five days prior to the surrender sur-render of the fortress the wireless station w;is destroyed, making it impossible an longer to communicate with Peking. The sui.ce?sful storming of Bismarck tort by the at ;u eking soldiers who recktessiy hurled thf- selves at us by making human bullets ni their bodies, sealed the fate of T.-dnctH'i. it then became evident that ti c garrison could no longer hold itself ag.iinst the ahedirg of lieavy artillery-To artillery-To have done so wou'd r.Hve swelled the iist of casualties and nothing would have been sained. That forced mo to raise th white fUg.' "Tne German charge d'affaires at Fe-king Fe-king says that Tsingtau feil two weeks sooner than was expected. "Tug governor wit!i C300 officers will b transported to Japan as prisoners on November 12." PKK1NG. Nov. 11. The Austrian cruiser cruis-er Kaiserin Kllzabeth, which took refuge at Tsingtau before that port was Invested by the Japanese, had eight members of j her crew killed during the Japanese at-; tack on Tsingtau. This news was transmitted trans-mitted by the commandant of the cruiser to the Austrian legation here. The legation says that the Kaiserin Elisabeth was sunk by her crew atter the ammunition ammuni-tion on board had become exhausted. TOKIO. Nov. 11. 2:Z0 p. m. Announcement Announce-ment is made that torpedo boat 23 of the Japanese navy was sunk by a mine earls today at the mouth of Klaoehow bay while dragging for mines. A majority of thi crew was rescued. The city of Tokfo today Is celebrating cele-brating with a mammoth civic demonstration, demon-stration, attended by fully 600,000 persons, per-sons, the turning over yesterday to the Jiipanese and British of the German fortified forti-fied position ot Tsingtau. Addresses were .i-iivm-i hv ih ritnlnmniic representa tives of the allied powers. The streets are decorated and the people -marching In processions pro-cessions show much enthusiasm. VANCOUVER, B. C, Nov. 11. A message mes-sage received at the navy yard at Esqut-mault Esqut-mault todav from the commander In chief of the Japanese second squadron which bombarded Tsingtau paJd: "The following vessels were found by us sunk bv explosion In Kiaochow bay: Jugnur. Liit he. litis. Cormorant. Tiger. lUku and Kuehln, which was a mine boat, and in addition the Kaiserin Elisabeth. All those ships, with the exception ol the last named, were German. The Kaiserin Kai-serin Elizabeth waa Austrian.