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Events on Saturday 7 November 1914 1
1914Siege of TsingtaoJapanese and British forces seize Germany's colony in ChinaA Japanese force, joined by a small British contingent, besieged and captured the German-leased port of Tsingtao on China's Shandong peninsula. It was Japan's first major action of the war and its first as an ally of Britain. The port's fall ended German colonial presence in East Asia.