Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-12-13

The native Of Formosa Is g Malay
"ery closely allied to the wilder peo-
5les Of the Philippines. and. like some
II Americas brown wards there, his
chief pleasure Is hunting and preserv-
Ing heads. The interior Of Forn1osa Is
q tropical jungle. almost impenetrable
There the natives lie low with occa-
sicnal forays into the open and much
midnight sniping Of Japanese with
long knives. The Japanese soldiers
have taken up the game with relish
and no Dyak hunting by the English
in Burma was ever carried on with
more vigor than the roofing out of the
Tormosans Is now being pushed.
During the war with Russia the abo-
riginal owner Of the soil Of Formosa
was allowed to do very much as he
pleased. because all the soldiers that
could be spared were sent into Man.
churia. Only garrisons at Tai-pei
Keelung and the other two seaports OF
the island remained. and these were
as alert against the possible arrival OF
the Baltic fleet as incursions Of the
natives.
But since the war the Japanese wal
office has sent about three regiments
to the island and the pursuit Of the
elusive child Of the forest, who Is after
all blood brother to the Japanese ac-
cording to some ethnologists, has be-
gun in earnest. Toxic papers recently
told of the plan of campaign mapped
out for the army In Formosa-
1t comprised the regular cleaning Out
of one section Of the country after an
other right through the centre OF the
island. Railroads are being built in
Formosa and others are to be built af-
ter the interior has been pacified SC
the thorough extermination Of the ma
tive must go on apace.
The Japanese armies, not very large
but trained through past experience In
Jungle fighting, have started from the
south end Of the island. and according
to plan. will go through to the north
shore "pacIfying" the natives. With
in the next ten years or so the only
good Formosan will be In the category
of the good Indian.
Japan's little war in Korea has just
begun, and the journals Of Japan voice
the opinion Of the people when they
profess ignorance as to when 1t win be
finished. The little war began in the
streets of Seoul last July when Japan
ose soldiers shot down the rebellious
yorean troops who refused to give UP
heir arms at the command Of the Ja-
~anese commander in Korea, General
Tasegawa.
Very much to the surprise Of the
Japanese, who have always underrated
he Korean national spirit and the in
'ividual bravery Of the people, the
;truggle that started in Seoul three
months ago has spread over all OF
the peninsula, and 1t looks as IL For
nosan persuasion would have to be
rsed. Excerpts at random from the
atest Toxic papers will show the ma
'ure Of the guerrilla warfare that the
Xorean patriots have taken up with
'anatical energy.
"a telegram from Seoul, under date
f September H." says the Nichi Nihcl
@himban, says that overland trans
nort Of mail from Seoul to Gensan has
been suspended temporarily, owing to
in localities between the
two places. Again, the insurgents al
Seiyu, who escaped the Japanese forces
and arrived at Chojo. have increased
their number to a thousand, and are
now threatening to attack Seiyu In a
body. The Japanese at the latter place
have escaped to Kwoshu."
Another dispatch says that at Seoul
Chemulpo and Fusan business is prac-
tically at a standstill because Of the
suspension Of product shipments from
the troubled interior. Railroad service
on the Seoul-Fusan railroad has been
discontinued at several places because
the insurgents have seized the railroad
stations and threatened the bridges.
Three miles outside of Taiku, the
principal town on the line Of the rail-
road between Seoul and Fusan, where
several hundred Japanese are living, a
band Of Koreans descended OH seven
teen Japanese and wiped them out en-
tirely. This is the way the Koreans
are fighting.
They are all disorganized, unframed
in the arts of warfare, badly equipped
and almost starving, but they are in
spired with a hatred Of japan that has
been rooted in the race for three hun
dred years, and they seem ready to
fulfill the prophecy made here in New
York by Prince VI some months ago
that his countrymen would resist ia
panese absorption until they were all
dead.
Until the Japanese shall have made
Of the peninsula one great barrack
there seems little likelihood that they
will check the guerrilla warfare. Ko-
rea is a country ribbed with mountain
chains along its whole length. Just
the one slender thread Of railroad run
ring from south to north offers access
to the interior, and that railroad
stretches through the very middle OF
the peninsula There are miles Of rag
ged mountains on either side where
Japanese do not dare to go singly al
present.
At the close of the war the horde OF
japanese immigrants that crossed over
to Korea followed the line Of the Keifu
railroad, and outside Of every sprawl
ing, hideously filthy Korean town
neat Japanese settlement sprang up
Thus one main artery Of Japanese
strength passes through the land at
its centre, and there is a cross current
of Japanese lodgment along the Yula
river at the extreme north and some
settlements along the coast
Yet even connected by railroad and