Show BATTLE WITH SAV SAVAGES OES Have Hare a Desperate Fight With Formosa Natives Tacoma aeoma Wash Oct 24 The The steamship steamship steamship steam steam- ship Victoria brings the news that two more battles have been fought in Formosa between Japanese troops and nd the native savages who seem bent benton on exterminating all the Japanese on the island So serious are the disturbances disturb disturb- ances that Europeans and numbers of Chinese merchants are fleeing to Amoy by every steamer A month ago 1000 aborigines l tacked Lacked and set fire to one of the principal prin prin- principal cipal Japanese military stations A After ter eight hours' hours desperate fighting the In this battle more than were killed On the following day a large band of natives i iad ad advanced to burning the station at Japanese troops reached at the same time and surprised the aborigines in their headquarters which were burned In nother battle scores of natives were hot down The he Formosa rebels have been supplied with arms and equipments by the Chinese hundreds of whom have landed from Amoy |