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Egypt and to Madagascar.
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However this way great relief is expressed at
Hong Kong, and throughout the foreign settlement in this quarter of the globe, at the cessation of the
prolonged tension and of the harassing uncertainty regarding the future, which have
during some time past, seriously injured the interests of trade and commerce.
It will be seen that
while China has renounced her claim of Suzerainty over Annam and Tonquin, and thus virtually resigns to France the greater portion of the Indo-Chinese Peninsula, France, on the other hand, has renounced her claim for an indemnity for the expenses of the War. The latter Power would seem to have at last practically acquired an extensive dominion in the East, which has been the dream of French ambition ever since the days of Dupleix and Labourdonnais, who first conceived