Show MASSACRE IN FORMOSA Unarmed Villagers Murdered By Say vage Head Hunters Vancouver B C May Formosan advices give details of a terrible massacre mas-sacre In the vicinity of mike a town In the central district Thirty unarmed villagers were ambuscaded by about sixty savages who killed twentynine of them Only one escaped The cause of the massacre is said to have been a dispute between savage tribes over the paternity of an illegitimate illegiti-mate child and the death of Its mother s The reputed father of the child denied the charge and refused to make compensation com-pensation to the tribe to which the girt belonged An appeal to head hunting parties was the only way by which the injured tribe could prove its righteousness righteous-ness to Its ancestors After the massacre the savages indulged in-dulged in a feast at which the heads of the murdered villagers were conspicuously conspic-uously displayed |