Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1909 — Fighting Formosan Tribes. [ARTICLE]

Fighting Formosan Tribes.

Several weeks ago ten communities of the Nan-0w aboriginal tribe In the Glran province of Formosa proposed to the government to submit. Upon this the government gave them the follpwing terms of conditions under which the government was disposed to admit their submission^ 1. The aborigines concerned should hand over to the government those skulls which had been cut. off the bodies of the other tribes whon) they killed and are keeping in their houses according to their habits. 2. Their arms and ammunition should all be surrendered to the government. The aborigines agreed to the former condition, but many of them objected to the later, and thereupon they gave up the idea of submission Since then they are again offering resistance against the government troops, appearing here and there in the vicinity of the Aiyu line (a guard line established by the government against the unsubjugated aborigines) Hut the government. troops having finished s the construction of their guard houses, telephone lines and wire entanglements, and thus almost attained their object, are now chiefly paying attention to their guard service, attaching less importance to their submission. —South China Morning Post.