El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-02
HEAD HUH TIERS
DEFY TROOPS
Of JAPAN
Fight From Tops of Trees in
the Island of Formosa
Against Their Enemies.
NEW WOMAN MOVE
SPREADS RAPIDLY


has opened a vigorous mil
Z itary campaign against 20
600 savages of the Island of For
mosa. better known as head hunters"
who have refused to submit to the do
mination of Japan When Japan was
coded Formosa in 1895 at the cOnclu-
sion of the war with China the head
hunters, so named because of their
custom of bringing human heads to all
ceremonies, numbered about 10000
but successive campaigns and peace
overtures by the Japanese have now
limited them to the TarucO tribe, the
widest of all, who inhabit the rugged
and precipitous mountains near the
eastern coast The present Japanese
force of subjUgation comprises 5000 men
made up of native troops and the pO-
lice force of the island It is divided
into two columns and is in charge OF
Cen Sakuma, the governor general OF
FOrmOsa-
Fight From Trees.
The Taruco tribesmen came from
the Malay Peninsula and are the oldest
known inhabitants of FOrmoSa- They
practice a rude kind of agriculture,
wear scarcely any clothing, and live in
wood and bamboo huts on the heights
of almost inaccessible mountains. They
fight from the tops of trees, and the
campaign against them viii be exceed
ingly dangerous
largely carried on by constructing
electrically charged wire fences, grad
ually extended into the savage district
until the dominion of the head hunters
was restricted to the mountains which
must now be assailed- The japanese
/ hope to make peaceful farmers out OF
those who are left at the end Of the
present expedition
Must Follow the Trend.
A notable contribution to the discus
sion of the relation of the west to the
east, opened up by the Californian land
bill agitation, has been made by count
Okuma, the Grand Old Man of Japan"
who declares that Japan's future sue
cess depends upon her development Of
foreign intercourse.
Count Okuma writes of this problem
in volume fresh from the press. The
statesman constantly uses the word
"taisei," meaning trend, tendency, cur
rent or movement. Dividing history
into the ante-medieval and post
medieval periods, the writer points out
that in the former period oriental
races .overran Europe, while in the lat
ter European races invaded the oriental
world. This pulsation, or movement of
races, count Okuma calls the "ta1sei,
or tendency of history"
Three successive waves have swept
Japan. The first period began with
Oda Nobunaga, when the Portuguese,
Hollanders, English and other Europe
ans sought intercourse with Japan.
The second was the Russian movement
which began to be felt after $50 years
Of secluSiOn, and the third reached its
culmina ton with the coming Of COM
modore Perry from the United States.
The attitude of a country toward this
world tendency decides its fate The
count says: ITO follow the taisei is to
rise, and to oppose the taisei means
destruction" This law he declares,
holds in the material world, and as
principle it pervades human history.
The course for q nation to pursue is to
obey the world tendency, to mount
upon it, and to guide it It was this
attitude that saved Japan from des-
tructiOn. If Japan for any reason
should assume an attitude of hostility
and opposition to the world tendency,
her doom would be sealed.
Count Okuma considers it a matter
of good fortune that Japan took advan-
tage of the world tendency when the
movement was felt pressing at her
door. THE progress of Japan In the
future" count Okuma concludes, win
depend upon the nations success or
failure in effecting intercourse with
foreign nations"
Makes Strides in Aviation.
Japan is making important strides IN
aviation Recently a number Of young
military officers trained by the army
aviation corps made a series of sue
cessful inter provincial flights, cover
ing a distance of so miles, and qualified
themselves as experts. The aviation
corps has a spacious open ground at
Tokorozawa, near Toxic, where a
group of students aviatOrs is being
trained by Capt Tokugawa- These
military aviators make occasional eX-
cursions to the city of Toxic, the peo-
pie of which climb up to house tops to
see the man birds" fly. The aero
planes in use are Japanese biplanes,
devised by Capt Tokugawa and a num-
Der of French machines.
The naval aviators also have been
active recently They paid a surprise
visit to Yokohama and Toxic from the
naval station at Yokosuka In one of
these trips Lieut. Yamada covered a
distance of 100 miles in two hours and
10 minutes The naval aviatOrs are
now planning to exhibit their craft be-
fore the emperor, who is recuperating
at Hayama, a seaside resort, from his
recent illness
Aside from army and navy aviators.
Japan has number of private aero
nauts, who are making successful
flights at different points in the en-
pire.
New Woman Move Spreads
The new woman" crusade in Japan
4 is day by day occupying an increas-
ingly prominent place in public dis
cussion- This Is due to the compare
lively radical measures adopted by
the women to further their cause, and
to the fact that this agitation has
elected counter campaign by promi-
nent men Of Japan, including officials
of the department of Education. AL
though the Japanese crusaders have in
no way approached the radicalism of
their English sisters and have not re-
stored to violence. they are carrying
on a determined movement by means of
lectures and literature, some of which
the government has seen fit 20 censure.
Mr.. Okuda, minister of education, says
he is at loss to understand the real
motives of the new woman" He de-
clares, so far as he can gather. that
they are trying to transplant wholesale
to Japan the extreme and unwhole-
some doctrines which have had a vogue
in some parts of the United States and
Europe, without modifying them to
suit the Japanese people.
IF their movement is actuated by
consciousness of the necessity of
freeing themselves from the yoke i'm
posed by men. or by Indignation at
the attitude of some men who regard
women as mere dolls" the minister
declares, 7 think there is some reason
in their attitude. But if they aim
merely at improving mems conduct to-
ward women, there are many other
ways in which this could be attained
without taking such steps as are at
present contemplated"
The minister admitted that not a
few cases of unhappiness in the home
in Japan are due to the general mis-