Japan invaded Chinese territorial sovereignty in order to land over 15,000 troops at Longkau in order to stage them for an attack on German controlled Tsingtao.
In nature, the act was really no different than Germany entering Belgium in order to invade France, although it was certainly much different in scale.
Today what had been the German possession is called Quingdao. The Yellow Sea port had been a German possession since 1897, but from this point until after the end of World War Two it was a Japanese one. Following that, in 1946, it briefly was the headquarters of the U.S. Navy's Western Pacific Fleet, until it relocated to the Philippines in 1948. It reverted to full Chinese control with the entry of the Red Chinese army in 1949.
In addition to being one of the busiest ports in the world, its famous for the beer brewed under the city's name, per its original spelling.
The Germans entered Moronviliers which would become deserted and destroyed during the war.
Charles Masterman invited twenty five "eminent literary men" to Wellington House in London to form a secret British entity dedicated to British war time propaganda.
William Archer, Arnold Bennett, G. K. Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ford Madox Ford, John Galsworthy, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, John Masefield, Henry Newbolt, Gilbert Parker, G. M. Trevelyan and H. G. Wells attended the meeting.
Fighting drew down at Tannenberg.
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