arihant magazine Asia and the Pacific Military recruitment in Melbourne Australia 1914. Main article Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I New Zealand occupied German Samoa later Western Samoa on 30 August 1914 On 11 September the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force landed on the island of Neu Pommern later New Britain which formed part of German New Guinea. On 28 October the German cruiser SMS Emden sank the Russian cruiser Zhemchug in the Battle of Penang. arihant Japan seized Germanys Micronesian colonies and after the Siege of Tsingtao the German coaling port of Qingdao on the Chinese Shandong peninsula. 1 As Vienna refused to withdraw the Austro Hungarian cruiser SMS Kaiser in Elisabeth from Tsingta Japan declared war not only on Germany but also on Austria Hungary the ship participated in the defense of Tsingtao where it was sunk in November 1914. Within a few months the Allied forces had seized all the German territories in the Pacific only isolated commerce raiders and a few holdouts in New Guinea remained books for bank exams
