'The reports that reach us of the evil doings of the Japanese in' Formosa are heart-rending. With regard to the inhabitants the Japanese are truly adopting a hey of extermination. I often wonder if that were a point in the Shimonoseki Treaty. What with destroying crops, burning villages, violating graves, insulting and violating women, the people are driven to exasperation." It is all very well to say many of them are robbers and inevitable that the innocent will suffer with the guilty. But the case is far worse. No doubt there are some robbers. No one who knows Formosa denies that. But. the policy of the Japanese is daily increas: ing the number of the robbers. Chere ure several causes for the increase of robbers. I shall mention one or two.
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