Tsinan

It is only a slight exaggeration to say that they "took" the Chinese Tsinan before they took the German Tsing-tao....When the Japanese consul at Tsinan was visited by Chinese officials in protest against these illegal arrests, the consul disclaimed all jurisdiction.

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Some fifty thousand Japanese forces straddled the Kiaochow-Tsinan railway, determined to protect Japanese "interests" in Shantung. There were occasional clashes and skirmishes with Chinese troops, and several hundred Chinese soldiers were killed. The Japanese occupied Tsinan, took over the telegraph and post offices, put up sandbags in the streets, and gave every appearance of preparing to contend for the province of Shantung against four revolutionary armies.

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Comrade Huo Wei-te, vice chairman of the Shantung provincial committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, died of illness on 14 June 1977 in Tsinan at the age of 76 despite medical treatment. Comrade Huo Wei-te was from a poor peasant family of (Leichiakuang) village of the (Chunghsiao) commune in Suite County, Shensi Province.

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For ten years, Lowell Skinner worked in a paper mill in the city of Tsinan.

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