People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1895 — To Suppress the Black Flags. [ARTICLE]

To Suppress the Black Flags.

Hong Kong, May 7.—Five thousand troops have started from Canton for the Island of Formosa, In order to suppress the anticipated opposition to the Black Flags to the occupation of that inland by the Japanese according to the terms of the treaty of peace between China and Japan. Many of the troops are unreliable and liable to Join the Black Flags.