Meaning of Tsingtao | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“But the most serious situation developed out of Japanese participation in the World War. In the first place⟳, the Japanese advance on Tsingtao put⟳ China as a neutral power in an anomalous position.”

“Wagner was a German agricultural economist who in 1911 went to Tsingtao to teach⟳ in a German-Chinese Middle School. He later worked at the Litsun Agricultural Experimental Station in Shantung where he continued his studies of agriculture both past and present⟳.”

“Into Nelson Bell's earphones squawked a message from the consul at Tsingtao and then from the American minister himself, "insisting that we leave⟳." The decisive factor, however, was a frank acceptance that to stay⟳ might increase⟳ the difficulties of Chinese Christians when the victorious revolutionary army poured into North Kiangsu.”

“1927, September 20. The Japanese steamship Gentoku Maru capsized in Tsingtao (Ch'ing-tao) Bay, China, killing 278.”

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