WAR BETWEEN FRANCE AND CHINA.
[REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. >—< BOMBARDMENT OF TAMSUI, THE CHINESE STILL IN POSSESSION. ENGAGEMENT IN TONQUIN. DEFEAT OF THE CHINESE AFTER FIVE HOURS’ ACTION. (Received October 10, 10.10 p.m.) _ Hong-Kong, October 10. Later intelligence from Formosa shows that the report of the occupation of Tamsui by Admiral Lesseps is incorrect. The town is still in possession of the Chinese troops, and the French bombardment is continued daily. The local forces are strongly entrenched in the neighbourhood of Tamsui, and efforts to dislodge them as yet have proved unavailing. (Received October 11, 0.55 a.m.) Paris, October 9. Despatches have been received from Tonquin stating that an engagement has taken p’ace between a force of Chinese, numbering 6000 men, and the French troops under General Negrier, at Kep. The action lasted for five hours, when the Chinese fled, having suffered heavily from the French (ire. General Negrier lost twenty-one men killed and fifty wounded, and was himself wounded slightly.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2529, 11 October 1884, Page 2
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