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TRACK CHART SHOWING JAPANESE NAVAL DURING THE WORLD WAR. LNLAND ICELAND SIEERIA GREAT BRITAIN RUSSIA GERMANY AUSTRIA FRANCE JAPAN CHINA NORTH PAC PERSIA INDIA ARABIA be Is Japanese infantry officer PHILIPP OCHGAL YAP ARABIAN SEA EAST ASIA AND THE PACIFIC ABYSSINIA GORNE FRONT Japan declared war on MAHE Germany on August 23, 1914. Four JAVA days later, Japanese forces blockaded INDIAN OCEAN Tsingtao, located in the German pro- MAURITIUS TIC tectorate of Kiachow, China. After 10 AUSTRALIA weeks of fighting, the city's German FREMANTLE defenders ran out of ammunition and were forced to surrender by November. Throughout the fall of 1914, the Japanese took over most of Germany's posses- sions in the region, including the Marshall Islands, the Mariana Islands, and the Carolines. Australia, backed by British naval forces, took control of German New Guinea. Japan's land forces played no role in the fighting in Europe or the Near East, but Japanese naval vessels escorted Allied ships to the Mediterranean Sea. Japenese infantry in formation "Japan has given an ultimatum to Germany. A map of the world hangs in our classroom on which the enemy countries are marked with red flags. Now we have the island nation of Japan also flagged with red." Diary try of Plela ub, a tweive-year old girt August 22, 1814 he J cot a Mi Avka Ack n T T e eUieS aig w a or e e e SUMATRA 10

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