Show electricity amm 44 m IN wim WAR japanese la use novel expedient in subduing savage tribes most curious duel being waged against bloodthirsty aiyu tribes in island of formosa Sold soldiers lers unable to check outrages philadelphia the most ferocious maba hepting hup ting japan Is to light fight with the most modern of military agencies electricity it is 13 a most curious duel that iti IA now being waged in the island of formosa between the japanese and the bloodthirsty tribes it Is the proudest achievement of the head bead hunter to increase his collection le ct I 1 on of skulls lie ile who has most moat of these sanguinary relics la Is esteemed the great man of the tribe and the gruesome skulls are exhibited with the utmost pride not only to residents but to visitors who may chance under tinder pr proper oper guard to penetrate to the fast nesses of the interior it lias bas not taken long tor for japan to find that her soldiers can not aval avail to stop tho the depredations and outrages committed by the head hunters there are some hundred thousands ands of these savages who became a problem to the boklo government when the outcome of the war with china in 1885 1895 brought formosa under japanese dominion the gallant little brown men who had been able to overwhelm the chinese and who later were to strike such a frightful blow at the prestige of russia were unable to deal with the tead head lit huntera 1 aters 1 in the gu guerilla 11 rilia warfare that ensued 1 its as soon na as the japanese Jn pavese soldiers sold lers came into the country the modern sons of jupiter wore constantly c worsted ted it was a private trick of the head hunadi to perform their deadliest outrages right under tho the noes to so to speak Bp pali of the new rulers of the Is 13 land then a tactician n in the army struck on a great idea fight them with electricity ft A wall was built across aci aaa tho the country a wall four hundred miles in length not a wall of stone but a far more deadly and treacherous wall one made mada of wire and charged constantly with ith a current that carriel death just just as certainly as tile the bullat of v a dead alint only it needed no soldier to fire this denta ines message sage all that the head hunter needed to do was to come into int contact with it just for the briefest space of time and with any portion of tits hit body death was then the suro sura olit outcome calne the deadly obstruction with secret roost most cleverly contriver contrive 4 extends across the land from the coast coart of cf giran in the east to the shore st at nanko nanke on the west side where it takes a turn north and circles about in such a way that the ha savages once within its lines would find escolme difficult without contact with the wire the tha fences are connected with powerful erful electric plants planta and the wires are constantly kept charged with the dedith dealine fluid already it 1 I has haa been found that the now new system Is the most that abo government hns has yet co zea arivel savages are ara baffled and misti fled ed they cannot understand what it Is 14 that haa the power of striking doyn down kheir belr comrades so BO suddenly sudden aud denly lr they afraid to move about in the night on their horrible head hunting bunting expedition tion tor for the wire has been placed with such cleverness that they never can tell when they are likely to co come we into contact with it the plan pinn ot of campaign at present Is to drive the savages into the mountains prevent them from coming into tho the low countries or near the towns town nud and so hem them in eventually by the wire barriers that they will be cut off from supplies and forced either to tiler hardly will this be regarded as aa cruel when we atrocities at 0 the head hunters are taken into account japan could hardly be expected to view with indifference such things as aa have happened in one jease case a rebel raid on a jap outpost resulted in the killing tind and decapitation of thirteen soldiers and so clover and crafty aras the enemy and so skilled nt at taking advantage of a knowledge of the country that the peril was persistent and unremitting the japanese call the head hunters tho Sel bans they are said to number moro more than one hundred thousand divided into seven hundred tribes ench tribe occupies its own territory and they are all independent of each other each seeming concerned alone in preventing encroachment on its land this lack of unity instead of being a handicap to the head hunters has really made their subjection harder jap generals say that if they were united in some sort of bond to protect them hem all it would be possible to get gel them together in a big enough force they would dare a pitched battle battie with the invader the outcome of such a contest would of course be victory for the trained soldier of japan and would eventually be tho the obliteration of the Sel bans but the head hunters steadily decline any such issue they fight in roving little bands they move ove eye the country with amazing rapidity and until the deadly electric fence limited their operations to one little section of the island there was waa no extreme ol of daring not possible to them |