u began on August 27.
The Japanese troops landed in Lao-shan Bay on September 18, the small
British force on the 24th. On the 28th they carried the high ground 2-1/2
miles from the main German position, and fire was opened on the fortress
during the first week in October. The general bombardment began on October
31 and lasted till the night of November 6, when the Japanese stormed the
central fort. We illustrate on another page one of the Japanese heavy
siege-guns used at Tsing-tau.--[_Photo. by Record Press._]

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THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914--[Part 21]--19

[Illustration: IN THE BATTERIES AGAINST TSING-TAU: A JAPANESE SIEGE-GUN
GETTING THE ORDER BY TELEPHONE TO OPEN FIRE.]

We see here one of the heavy siege-guns which the Japanese brought up for
the bombardment of Tsing-tau when about to open fire on the German
fortress. The gun-team of artillerymen are standing in rear of the
piece, and in the foreground, to the right, is one of the detachment
receiving orders by telephone from the battery-commandant at his post of
observation. Profiting by their experiences in siege-warfare at Port
Arthur, the Japanese were fully prepared with a very large and efficient
siege-gun train to undertake the attack on Tsing-tau immediately war was
declared. The Japanese employed 140 guns in the bombardment, including
28-centimetre howitzers and 21 and 15 cm. siege-guns, firing respectively,
11.2-inch, 8.4-inch, and 6-inch shells.--[_Photo. by Record Press._]

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20--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914.--[Part 21]

[Illustration: HAND-GRENADES SHOT FROM A GUN!--THE AARSEN GRENADE-GUN
BEING LOADED.]

One of the features of the present war which have been drawn attention to
by "Eye-Witness" in his letters from the Front, is the resuscitation of
fighting with hand-grenades on both sides. Particularly has this been the
case during the battles in Northern France and Flanders, wherever the
trenches approached one another within flinging distance. There also, on
occasion, where the troops facing one another were further apart, and
beyond reach of a throw by hand, an improvised catapult of the classic
type has been devised by our men for slinging hand-bombs; utilising a
met