A Tainan despatch to the "Avahi"" states that on the 9th instant a party of about a hundred aborigines attacked the police station at Rikiniki, in Ako district, and murdered the Inspector and fourteen other Japanese.
The following morning the Hosan branch of the District Office was attacked, but on this occasion the staff, numbering twelve, had got the themselves ammunition and a couple of rifles left behind, and proceeded to set fire to the town.
The staff returned to Hosan on the 11th, but finding the place still occupied by the aborigines they withdrew. Honyo was threatened, and the families of the staff of the office there were sent to Toko by steamer.
A party of police officers has been sent to Honyo from Toko. Inspector Wakida and another inspector and seven policemen stationed at Ariko, who were on a visit to the southern tribes to persuade them to surrender their arms, were attacked by the aborigines on the 11th and all killed.
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