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Show GERMANS LIKELY TO 1 SURRENDER AT TSINGTAU (Special Cable by London Daily Tele- J graph) j London, Oct. 18 A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company from , Pekln says that the British and Jap anese Friday bombarded Tsingtau j from the sea, attacking the Kaiser 1 1 and litis forts. The British casual . . i ties were one killed and two wound ed. The German charge d"affaires has r C Ived from Berlin a cipher message, Which is belioved to snncticn capitulation capitu-lation under certain conditions. The garrison is employing Chinese spies to show the position of the allies al-lies by colored lights at night. The Japanese report that the source of the water supply of Tslng tan is in their hands. German prls-onere prls-onere at the base appear to be glad to surrender and the early capitulation capitula-tion of the forts is expected. There has been a prodigious expenditure ex-penditure of ammunition during the past week. Shells have rained on the besiegers without, however, wounding any. It Is believed this will enable thp parrison to excuse the surrender 1 by pointing o-.it that their ammunition ammuni-tion has been exhausted. |