TRIBAL FIGHTING
TROUBLE IN FORMOSA Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. KOBE, April 2G. Three villages of Formosan aborigines of the Mnsha tribe were wiped out on Saturday, everything being burned, while 184 people were massacred. When t 1 > 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, and charged and massacred them at dawn. Tho assailants were well away with all their victims’ heads before Japanese armed police arrived.
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Evening Star, Issue 20778, 28 April 1931, Page 9
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96TRIBAL FIGHTING Evening Star, Issue 20778, 28 April 1931, Page 9
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