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[REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. >——< THE FRENCH DEMAND FROM CHINA. SPREAD OF THE CHOLERA IN FRANCE. DEATH OF DR. HOCHSTETTER. (Received July 12, 12.29 a.m.) Hong-Kong, July 19. It is announced that the Emperor of China has issued an order that the towns of Langson, Laokoi, and Coabang, in Tonquin, now in occupation of the Chinese, shall be surrendered to the French troops within a month. Parleying between Paternotre, the French Minister, and the Chinese official at Shanghai on the subject of France's claim for an indemnity on account of the Langson outrage is still proceeding. Meanwhile the French fleet, under Admiral Courbet, remains at Foo-Chow, with a view of holding the place if the French demands are refused. Paws, July 19. A renewal of the panic has occurred at Toulon, owing to the continued spread of cholera, and Government officials are reported to be deserting their posts. A further slight outbreak of cholera has occurred here, and at Aries and Maiiies in the neighborhood of Marseilles. London, July 19. The death is announced of Dr. Hochstetter, the well-known German savant.
At Panama, men continue to arrive by every vessel for the canal company. The number now employed exceeds 14,000. A white squall caught a party of tourists moving across a lake in Scotland, and threatened to capsize the boat. When it seemed that the crisis had come, the largest and physically strongest of the party, in a slate of intense fear, said : " Let us pray." " No,
no, my man," shouted the bluff old boatman, " let that that little man pray; you take an oar!"
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Kumara Times, Issue 2522, 21 July 1884, Page 2
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