The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-10-27
LITTLE WARS BOTHER JAPAN
FORWOSA ND G0REA DECLINE
10 NJ ANSyNgLACED.

Japan Ia finding hat the same trouble
some by-products Of tensvoicn' assimila.
ron that bother the white maj also irk tho
brown man. The NIas 20 nov has two
little wars ON his han.is. zach ~ them an
hothersome NJ any expedition In the Sudan
or punitive march in Ssmsr.
The japanese have been lighting tlpe
natives Of Formoss ever since the treaty OF
~Shimonoseki gave that peppery island INTO
'heir keeping. wniks the Chimes owned
" they we're content in their happy 10
lucky way 10 snatch what camphor. teak
and sugar thev could from tho soil between
raids ~ the naked savsges and to let vel!
enough alone. But with The advent Of the
little brown soldiers = allow. nagRinx war Of
determination against the aborigines wac
inauguratsd n Il 10 still in progress.
Tho native OF Forn,osa IL q Malay. very
closely allied 10 the wilder peoples OF the
Philippines and. like some Of Americas
brown wards there, his chief pleasure 10
hunting n preserving heads. Tho in
terror Of Formosa 10 q tropical jungle, al
most ~impenetrable.
There the natives lie low with occasional
10 avs into the open n much midnig ht
sniping Of japanese with long knives. The
J1pADcbS BOtutSIo uaVS tHWou up tuo B3tUS
with a relish. and no Dyak hunting by the
English in Burma was ever carried on with
more vigor than Inc roofing out II the For
mosans 10 now being pushed.
During the war with Russia tho aboriginal
owner NJ the soil In Formosa vas allowed to
do very much as he pleased because all the
soldiers that could be spared were sent into
Manchuria. Only gsrrisons at Tsi-pei. kee-
lung and the other two seaports OF the
island remained. and tbess wers 40 alert
against The possible arrival Of the Baltic
feet as iucursions OF ths natives.
But since the war tina Japanese wSr Once
has sent about three Regiments to the island
and the pursuit 81 the elusive child Of the
forest, who 10 after all blood brother to the
Japanese according to some ethnologists.
has begun in earnest. Toxic papers re-
Gently told OF the plan OF campaign mapped
out for the army in Formosa.
It comprised tho regular cleaning out OF
one section OF the country after another
right through the centre Of h island.
Railroads are being built In FormOss and
others are 70 be built After the interior has
been pacifed. 10 the thorough extermina-
ton Of the native must 90 Of apace.
Tn Jspanese armies. not very large but
trained through past experience in jungle
lighting, have started from the south end
Of the island. and according to plan will 60
through TO thu north shore -paOtfyins' the
natives. Wtshin the next ten yesrs o. %
the only good Formosan VIII b In the
category OF the good Indian.
Japan's littis war in Cores has just begun
and the Journals OF Japan voice b opinion
Of the people when they profess ienoranos
~ to when It will be finished. The little
war began IN the streets OF Seoui last July
whom Japanese soldiers shot down The re-
belllous Corean troops who refused to give
UP thsir arms at the command Of the Jspa-
mesa commander in Cossa. Cen. Hasesawa.
Very much to the surprise Of the Japanese,
who have always moderated h Corean
national spirit and the individual bravery
o6 the people. the struggle that started
In Seoul three months G has spread over
al a the peninsula, and 1t looks a. II For
mosan perSaadon would have to b used.
Excsspts 1t random from the latest Toxic
pagers will show the nature Of the guerrilla
warfare that ths Corsan patriots have
taken up with ianaticsl energy.
"A telegram from Seoul undo date d
September A. Ays the Niehi Nicki Shin
bva, 'says that overland transport Of mall
from Seoul to 0sosan has BEEN suspsoded
temporarily. owing to disturbance In looah-
tiss bst~sen the two places. Again. ths
insurgents At Seyu. who escaped the Jap
anese forces and arrived at Chojo. havs
increased their number to . thousand.
and are now threatening to attack Ssiyu
In . body. The japanese 1t the lattss
place have escaped to Kwoshu.'
Another despatch says hat at Seoul.
Chomulpo and Fusan business 10 prao-
tioally at q standstill because Of the ms-
pension Of produce shipments from the
;roubied interior. Railroad service on the
Seoul-Fusan Railroad has been discon-
riuued at several places because the in
surgents nave seized the railroad stations
and threatened the bridges.
Three miles outside OF Taiku. the principal
town ou the line Of the railroad between
Seoul and Fusan. whore several hundred
Japanese are living, q band OF Coreans
Iescended on seventeen Japanese and
wiped them out entirely. This 10 the way
the Coreans are lighting.
They are all disorganised. unframed In
TIE arts of warfare. badly equipped and
sl,ncs. starving. but they are inspired
with a hatred Of Japan that has been rooted
in the race for three hundred years. and
inc" se9M READY 70 fuiHi tHo ptophccy
made here in New York by Prince vi some
months z that his countrymen would
continue to resist Japanese absorption until
,fey we're all dead.
Until the Japanese shall have made
of the peninsula n great barrack there
seems little likelihood hat they will check
TIE guerrilla warfare. Corea ID a country
ribbed with mountain chains along ito
Whole length. just the one slender thread
e railroad running from south to north
,ners access to the interior. and that rail
road stretches through the very middle
Of the peninsula. There are miles Of ragged
mountains on either side where japanese
DO not dare 70 20 sinsly at present.
A. the close OF tho war the horde Of
Japanese immigrants that crossed over
to Corea followed the line OF the Kcifu
rsilroad. and outside OF every sprawlins,
hideously filthy Corean towna neat Japanese