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Show TS ING TAU SITUATION IS LITTLE CHANGED Pekln. Oct. R. 7:15 p. m. A communication com-munication received here from a German Ger-man source In Tsing Tau, the fortified position in the Kiao Chow territory, sets forth that in a German sortie last I Friday night the Germans lost one roan killed and three wounded, while twenty-five Germans are missing. The" British battleship Triumphant, according to this same information, has participated in the bombardment of Tsing Tau. A German torpedo boat which was recently engaged with the Japanese has returned to the harbor undamaged. undam-aged. The German gunboat Jaguar was slightly damaged. Information has been obtained from a reliable source that last night the German authorities gave instructions for the destruction of all bridges and stations still under their control along the line running east and weBt through Shantung province The Germans Ger-mans endeavored further to transfer all the rolling stock of this line to the Tien-TBin-Pukow road, but the Chinese board of communications Issued Is-sued instructions to prevent such transfer. The Russian government, it Is related re-lated here, has undertaken to find capital for the Chinese government for the construction of a railroad line from Harbin to Blagovletschtchensk, with a branch to Tsltsikhar in Man chuiia. A recent dispatch from Tokio said that In a surprise night attack against the Japanese before Tsing Tau the Germans had forty-eight killed. This same dispatch 6ald that 'our Japanese shells had struck the German gunboat gun-boat litis, a sister ship of the Jaguar, which retired to the Inner harbor after aft-er the exchange of shots. London, Oct. 6, 10:35 p m A report re-port received here from Pekln says the British are continuing the vigorous vigor-ous attack on the German position at Kiao Chow. The German troops, it is said, have withdrawn on Talng Tau Itself, It-self, the forte of which are kept busy day and night. It iB added that the British and Japanese troops are preparing pre-paring for a decisive advance |