Tsingtao, 3rd November.
Further fighting took place near Kaomi on November Ist. Largo numbers of Boxers had assembled there and strongly fortified two villages, which were known as turbulent. As interference by them with the railway work was apprehended, Captain Conradi, of the German Marines, with 400 men (200 marines, 30 cavalry, 2 maxims and 4 field guns) attacked both villages. These were captured. After all the women, children and old people had been sent away, the villages were burnt to the ground, The German troops had one trumpeter and seven men wounded, whilst 200 dead Chinese were found left on the field. With a view to the maintenance of order further bodies of infantry and artillery have been sent for. Yuan Shih-kai, the Governor of Shantung, hes expressed his satisfaction at the energetic measures taken by the Guvernor of Kiaochou for the punishment of the Boxers.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.