The Archive · 1930

Heavy Casualties Feared

Tokyo, Oct. 28

According to the latest official despatch from Formosa, a number vot tribesmen suddenly launched attack upon the Primary School @tusha yesterday while an athletic meeting was in progress.

"The number of casualties is not yet known, but it is feared to be cheayy. A force of 600 armed police was despatched to the scene of the Special messages received by the "Osaka Asahi" report that about 1190 Japanese have been massacred, including 20 school-girlls, but confirmation of these reports is lack-sug—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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