CHINA AND FRANCE.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1117, 26 November 1883, Page 3

CHINA AND FRANCE.

The Tonquln Difficulty. .*1!.,) ! :fi-; frl _Cj!;O i'l * \rn ’ ll *■' Wtasslng of Chines# Troops. ' , :-iv:v:- ;t:j-Hf‘i Alliance with the»lack nags :■;•!•'» „•!•.>hi; s ’t iu’/i, (•*?!•) Hiot Reported Outbrea& of Hostili- . .. . ■ =- ; J . : i . ,; T > '■ ?i : ■ .1 PARISH NbT : 23i'i^ Cetera) addittppal equipped at Tonlop : lor ifep conveyance ofjT-fnrtbfr.' reinforcements: of French troops tp Tonqnim - Received Nov' 26, . a.m.) ~ >n HGKG KOHG, ;Nor 24. ■ Intelligence KCo i hiah<LJfrom Canton "ibows:.:thMl/ afetlvd preparations in ?iew of lh£ outbreak H prance are being made £ Without * cessation in that city, and that the. Ififferjal tropps arc. now deling massed, threatening attitude pf the r nptiye f s||),wards dSnropean. residents has in'* any way subsided. It has transpired that relations 1 of ah bctw&hDthe; Chinese ,apd the Black Flags, and that a'seVref treaty, the terms ofD»hichrß» n6f;lroWcT.er known, has been concluded two nations. It?ls now considered that an ontbfSnfc’ of-sCtiTe;h : France and Chip*is =ihSyitab|e that the open depjaralipp.of War', Will hot be delayed foyVaiaiy'length of. time. . ~,'v ■' v=. Reportstp hand from; Tonquin state that the 1 Chinese troops have: already ashamed tb# offensive, and "that a force of 8000 attacked.the French positldh7at HaidWping ' f (sie) l ,\ bnt; ‘ xetreate d after seven'boors* fighting.' Great anxiety and alarm atthe scrions in Chip®*; V'. -mi