Kiaochow
Britishnoun
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The German stronghold of Kiaochow was promptly reduced, while Germany’s possessions in the Pacific Ocean north of the equator, the Caroline, Pelew, Marianne, and Marshall island-groups, were likewise occupied by Japanese forces.
From The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy by Lothrop Stoddard
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 B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale
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 Emile Joseph Dillon
The Germans seized Kiaochow Bay and created a naval base there; they also acquired railway and mining rights in Shantung, which, by the Treaty of Versailles, passed to Japan in accordance with the Fourteen Points.
From The Problem of China by Bertrand Russell
Yes or no, does Kiaochow, whose population is exclusively Chinese, form an integral part of the Chinese state?
From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Emile Joseph Dillon
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