Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1919 — Airplanes to Subdue Head Hunters. [ARTICLE]

Airplanes to Subdue Head Hunters.

The next Japanese budget of the governor general of Formosa will contain an item of $91,500 for a flying corps to subdue the head-hunting aborigines of that island. Mr. Shimomura, chief, of civil administration of Formosa. says: “Probably four airplanes will be used in the first year, operations will be started as soon ns the formal sanction o’s the diet is obtained. If it is difficult to secure rhe necessary aviators we shall ask the army to send their airmen. We may also ask the army to train new airmen specially to meet our requirements. There is nothing like airplanes for awing Formosa natives; experience shows that this weapon is one of the best for subjugating them. No economic exploitation of Ari. Dnibu. Niitake and other unsubjugated places can be undertaken until after the savage aborigines are subdued.”