HONG KONG.
September 13. News has been received that hostilities have boon resumed between the French troops and the An namite force known as the " Black Flags." Tho accounts to hand state that fighting lasting for fully eight hours recently took place at Phoukai. The engagement was a severe one, and resulted in tho loss of 51 to the French. The "Black Flags " are reported to have lost fully 500 men.
Tho latest intelligence from Canton states that (he Europeans in that city are very uneasy in consequence of the violent antiforeign placards which have been extensively posted there.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3797, 15 September 1883, Page 3
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99HONG KONG. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3797, 15 September 1883, Page 3
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