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 | | The Germans indeed proved extraordinarily prodigal in ammunition, firing on an average 1,000 to 1,500 shells daily, a fact which lent support to the current view that, while undesirous of incurring their emperor's displeasure, they realized the hopelessness, so far as Tsing- tao was concerned, of their emperor's cause. |
 | | Warships in the bay assisted the cannonade from the forts, and Lieutenant von Plusehow, the airman of the single aeroplane the town possessed, ventured forth at intervals to reconnoitre or to bomb. |
 | | Early in the morning of November 6 the airman von Plusehow flew away across Kiao- chau Bay, and did not return. |
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