FURTHER HOSTILITIES BETWEEN FRENCH AND CHINESE IN TONQUIN.
INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION TO REGULATE NAVIGATION Ol CONGO. MR. GLADSTONE WARNS HOUSE OF LORDS ABOUT REJECTION OF FRANCHISE BILL. AUSTRALIANS VICTORIOUS against GENTLEMEN OF ENGLAND. PROROGATION OF GERMAN REICHSTAG. (Received June 8, 10 p.m.) HONG KONG. June 27. Latest news from Tonquin states that further fighting has taken place between tho French and" Chinese at Langson, on the frontier, tho Chinese being again the aggressors The accounts received here show that the attack was made on the French position at Langson by a large body _of Chinsse, and heavy fighting ensued wi*u varying success to the combatants, rue assaults of the Chinese were renewed at intervals during two days and hostilities proceeded for the whole of that time, neither side gaininsr any decisive advantage. Tho loss sustained by the French is set clown at 10 killed and 32 wounded. The Chinese loss is not known, but is believed to have been heavy. Ten thousand Chinese are reported to be in the vicinity of Langson, and further fighting is expected to takeplace during the next few days.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4037, 30 June 1884, Page 3
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183FURTHER HOSTILITIES BETWEEN FRENCH AND CHINESE IN TONQUIN. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4037, 30 June 1884, Page 3
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