* * * * It is startling to discover now
and then how events of considerable importance or gravity in some remote corner of the earth can escape notice here altogether. There has been hardly a mention, if any men- tion at all, in the British Press of shocking events which took place in Formosa at the end of February and the beginning of March. The island, which belong to Japan before the war, was handed over to China after Japan's surrender and placed under a Governor with a notoriously bad record. The native population became increasingly restive under his maladministration and after one or two rather serious disturbances three Chinese regiments were brought from the mainland to discipline the inhabitants, which they did by shooting
down at least Soo of them. Since then the Chinese Government has exerted its authority, recalled the Governor and attempted to set up a respectable regime. How it is working is hard to say, for very little
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