Franco-Chinese War
eeuteb's telegrams. London, August 24. The Tim.es* special correspondent telegraphs-pronouncing the bombardment'aa a sickening massacre. The French loss was. six killed. They also had one of their gunboats injured, and a.tprpedo boat wink. Yesterday tlie French shelled the barracks at (^piar.iio wliich the jCkinese offered no resistance/ Commenting on the afiair,E>tkeuTimes says . that Admiral Courbet is the idol of civilised warfire'. • *■•-■■-•' Hong Kong, August 25. intelligence is to hiand that the French ironclads engaged the Chinese forts at the mouth of the Foochow river to-day. ■ Alter a two hours' cannonade the ships retired.
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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 32, 28 August 1884, Page 3
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