FORMOSANS RIOTED AGAINST OPPRESSION WORSE THAN JAPANESE
By Telegraph Press Assn.-Copyright i" ■ ' Received Monday, 11.30 a.m. . SHANGHAI, March 30. Mr. John W. Powell, the only American correspondent who has been able to visit Formosa since the uprising began " in February, reported that the Chinese authorities suppressed demonstrations by a reign of terror probably unequalled in the history of the Kuomintang Government of China.
Mr. Powell, writing in the China Weekly Review, of which he is editor, said that Chinese Government troops perpetrated some of the most unimaginable atrocities against the Formosans, who had rioted against oppression far worse than that suffered at the hands of the Japanese. After the rioting began, Government troops sent out flying squads of troops who fired dum-dum machine-gun bullets into every group they met, causing deaths conservatively estimated at 5000. General Chen Yi, Chinese Governor, then promised to accept reforms, but used the truce period to reinforce his troops, who* then subjected Taihoku to a five-day blood-bath. Mr. Powell concludes: "The rebellion was quelled, but there is little hope that a'nything can be done to save Formosa economically or politically for China."
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Chronicle (Levin), 31 March 1947, Page 5
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