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Foochow that the French Admiral Courbet has at length received
orders from Paris to take action, and that on the 23rd and 24th
instant he almost entirely destroyed the Chinese squadron
and Forts at the Pagoda Anchorage, near the mouth
of
the river Min,
which leads to Forchow. Consequently,
AL
the 25th instant I sent to Your Lordship the subjoined Telegram:-
"French have destroyed Chinese 14314 ships and Forts Fovehow."
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near
The special correspondent
of
of the Times is now at the Telegraph Station Foochow, and
was an
near
eye-witness from
board one
on
of the English shipe,
of the fight and bombardment; if indeed that can
properly be called a fight where skill,
discipline, and weight of metal
were
almost.
entirely
on one
side:
"Si rixa est ubi tu pulsas, ego vapulo tantum". Doubtless, this gentleman Keeps the British public fully informed by telegraph of all details, which will have become obsolete before
this