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Show FORMALTRANSFER OF TSING TAD Japanese and German Officers Meet at Barracks and Conclude Con-clude Capitulation. Two Lessons of the Siege Effectiveness Ef-fectiveness of Heavy Guns and Aeroplane Scout Work. Toklo. Xov 7, 9:15 p m After desperate assaults, In which the Japanese Jap-anese In the fact of heroic resistance rivalled the bravery of their forces at Port Anhnr. tsing Tan sur-n sur-n u). i. 1 at 'J 'u o'clock this morning At that hour Governor Meyer-Wal-deck. following the hoisting of white flags on the forts, sent an officer with a flag of truce to the Anglo-Japanese Anglo-Japanese lln.s At 4 o'clock this afternoon the Japanese Jap-anese and German officers opened a conlerence at Moltke barraeks when the formalities of capitalation were concluded Unstinted Praise for Germans. The Japanese officers pay unstinted tihute to the bravery of the Germans Ger-mans who fought tenaciously to the last I nofficial reports are that the Germans blew up what was left of their forts before surrendering and practically the whole town Is in ruins A Japanese lorpedo boat flotilla that entered the la found that nearly near-ly all the ships had h-en destroyed An official estimate places the Japanese Jap-anese killed In the final assault last night at 36 with IS- wounded. The British took an Important part in the ictory and two British officers were wounded. No statement of the German Ger-man casualties is available but it is believed that the) wen- heavy Lessons of Siege The minister of war states that the lessons learned from the siege were-, first the destructlveness of the heavy guns that tho Japanese used for the llrst time: and second, ineffectiveness in-effectiveness of the aeroplane obser vatlon serviie whereby the methods of the defense were discovered. The prisoners who will number, it is said, between 6000 and 8000, will bfe brought to Japan Official Report of Victory. The official version of the victory, Issued by the Japanese war office follows : A genera1 bombardment on Octo-ber Octo-ber 31 permit fed the occupation on November i of the first attaoking po-Bltion po-Bltion 36.6 metre hill, 3000 fcn i south of our previous position and bounded bj the Shl-Ho and the Shunkns-Ho We entrenched and prepared for a further advance and on November i we progressed (o a second position a' Pompuga on the Fusaus-Ho, when-we when-we met a galling fire, yet never flinched. The heavy artillery moved closer and co-operated with and protected pro-tected the Infantry. "On the night of November 6 wei occupied the third and final attacking I position In front of the entangle-1 ments that screened the forts. Gen-J eral Yoshiml Yamada's command advanced ad-vanced from the center and forced Its way through three heavily wired defenses, crossed the intervening ditches and charging courageously. captured the center fort. This help-, ed General llomchi occupy the northerly north-erly forL "The right wing under General Yoyhi and the British right center led by Lieutenant Colonel Bernardis ton, jointly charged and early on No-' vember 7 completely occupied Forts j litis. Moltke and Bismarck, forcing the enemy to fly flags of surrender "Suddenly." says the official report re-port from Tou io, "the flag of surrender sur-render ran up in morning breeze, on the weather bureau mount towering above the sea and the land." Japan to Hold Tsing Tau. The vice minister of the navy states that Japanese will hold Tsing Tau until the war is over when she will 'open negotiations" with China. When the fighting at Tsing Tau Is at an end, the question is raised as to what Japan will do next. It is suggested sug-gested that she will now inaugurate an offensive naval campaign on the Pacific, employing the fleet re'eased from the bombardment of Tsing Tau In an attempt to run down 'he Ger man warships which wrought such havoc to British shipping Interests and defeated the British fleet off Chile |