Mezue nkebi ahịrịokwu a: Ọ bụ ezie na "Kaiserin Elisabeth" gbara nnukwu kol ọkụ, n'afọ 1914, ọ ka na-agba oké ọsọ ma na-arụ ọrụ na China. Mgbe Agha Ụwa nke Mbụ tiwapụrụ, "Kaiserin Elisabeth" tinyere aka n'ịgbachitere ógbè ndị Germany nke Tsingtao, bụ́ nke a na-akpọ
ndị Japan nọchibidoro na 25 August 1914; Japan kwupụtara agha na Germany na 23 August na ọnụnọ nke "Kaiserin Elisabeth" dugara Japan ikwuputa agha na Austria-Hungary na 25 August. Na Tsingtao na "Kaiserin Elisabeth" bụ ndị Imperial German Navy light cruiser, gunboats, na, na torpedo ụgbọ mmiri. (Ụsụụ ndị agha Germany nọ n'Eshia, bụ́ ndị na-anọkarị na Tsingtau, si n'Oké Osimiri Pacific na-agbaga n'ụlọ ha.) E kewara ndị ọrụ ụgbọ mmiri ahụ ụzọ abụọ; otu ìgwè nọgidere na-arụ ọrụ n'ụgbọ mmiri ahụ, ebe ìgwè nke ọzọ na-akwado ndị agha Germany.