Kiaochow
Britishnoun
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Japan, although by the fortune of war Germany's heir to Kiaochow, did not purpose retaining it for the remaining term of the lease; she had, in fact, already promised to restore it to China.
From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Dillon, Emile Joseph
It seems only the other day that Prince Henry was here for the special purpose of donating this mark of the personal esteem of the Kaiser after the Kiaochow affair.
From Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation by Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox)
The fall of Tsingtau renders obsolete the German colonial type of stamp for Kiaochow, although there may have been some interesting provisional issue here, and also possibly in the Marshall and Marianne Islands.
From The Postage Stamp in War by Melville, Fred. J.
It is in the name of the welfare of the peoples, as well as in the name of justice, that we assert our right to take over Kiaochow.
From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Dillon, Emile Joseph
Her lease of the territory of Kiaochow Bay brings her into contact with us, and her ambition to exploit the coal-mines of Shantung lends her a community of interest with us.
From The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy by Stoddard, Lothrop
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