WAR BETWEEN FRANCE AND CHINA.
[REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph—Copyright,
CHINESE ORDER TO ATTACK FRENCH VESSELS. REPORTED DESTRUCTION OF THE FRENCH IN TONQUIN. (Received September 1, 0.40 a.m.) Hong-Kong, August 31. Intelligence is to hand to the effect that the Chinese Government has ordered the commanders at all the treaty ports to attack any French war vessel or merchantmen entering or leavins ports. &
[special to press association.] London, August 28. The French disaster in Tonquin is not yet confirmed. Admiral Courbet is now engaged bombarding Kaing Po forts.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2556, 1 September 1884, Page 2
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