TRIBAL MASSACRE
Three Villages Wiped Out GRIM CLIMAX TO FEUD ; (Rec. April 27, 9 p.m.) Kobe, April 26. Three villages of Formosan aborigines of the Musha tribe were wiped out on Saturday. Everything was burned and 184 were massacred. When the Musha tribe rebelled last October the Togan and Tatsua tribes assisted in subjugating them. Recently the Mushas captured and beheaded three Togan women, resulting in combined secret operations by both tribes, who surrounded their enemies at night, charging and massacring at dawr The assailants were well away with all their victims’ heads before the Japanese armed police arrived.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 180, 28 April 1931, Page 9
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99TRIBAL MASSACRE Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 180, 28 April 1931, Page 9
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