The result of this escapade has been that all Chinese shops in Tsingtao have been ciosed—and in most instances, boarded up. The Chinese banks have transferred their books and funds to Tsinanfu. All members of the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce have cither left Tsingtao or gone into hiding. The Chinese officials who have come to Tsingtao to arrange the details of the transfer have either made themselves scarce or are living under the protection of strong police guards. The place is alive with alarmist rumours, and there is general apprehension in Chinese and foreign circles as to what will occur when the transfer of the town actually takes place on the 10th instant.
As far as I can_ ascertain the main body of bandits is under the command of a gentleman known as Sun Pao-wan, with Ma Yen-lung as his second-in-command. These gentlemen would have been satisfied in the first instance by the incorporation of 750 of their followers in the army or police, and the payment of a sum of about $100,000 to cover their bonus, the purchase of their arms, and the expenses of sending the men not embodied in the Government's service back to their homes. Later the number of men thus to be embodied in the Government forces was increased to 3,300, and the bandits claimed the right to police Tsingtao.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.