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Following the outbreak of World War I, Australian troops captured Kaiser-Wilhelmsland and the nearby islands in 1914, after a short resistance led by Captain Carl von Klewitz and Lt. Robert " Lord Bob " von Blumenthal, while Japan occupied most of the remaining German possessions in the Pacific.
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