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Show SECOND JAPANESE TORPEDOBOAT SOI German Cruiser Sends the Smaller Boat to Bottom Outside of Kiaochow. PEKIN, Sept. 22, 2:11 a. m. Mail advices from "Tsimo state that the Japanese lost a second torpedo boat outside Kiaochow. The vessel was sunk by a German cruiser. Correspondence from Tsingtau dated September IB says: "Japanese destroyers shelled the German barracks on the coast fourteen miles north of Tsingtau. Bombs dropped from hydroplanes today damaged neither the town nor -its defenses, because be-cause the constant firing of the garrison garri-son kept the airships about 2U0O yards above the town." The British detachment which left Tsinticn to co-operate with the Japanese at Kiaochow sailed nominallv for Wei-Hai-Wci, Shantung, but it is believed that the men would land in Laoshan bay, thereby avoiding a violation vio-lation of China s neutrality. |