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informed we that he has received from
a reliable quarter au account of an engagement betwon the French and, Chinese forces in Tonquin about the be or 7th instant.
ор
2.
re
It is stated that the Freuch
-inforcements, amounting
to
seven
thousand (7000) mun, have arrived
at Haifeng,
and that, when thus
: strengthened, the French army
advanced towards the Chimuse frontier-
up
the Loonan river. The Chinese &
forces encamped at Chii, a place not marked on the maps, but lying between Liang-giang and Correngane, were
attacked
attacked; three lines of entrenchment wer
carried; and two batteries of Freepp, guns,
with all the ammunition and stores,"
were captured . The loss on the Freuch side is reported at nineteen (19) killed, and eixty four (64) wounded; while that of the Chinese is estimated at.. six hundred (600) killed. The Freuch
wvere
to advance on
Laugson
on the
15th instant. A desultory warfare.
may
be waged for a long period;
without definite results,
a
4, among
the
mountains and river-intersected:
plain of Torquin.
3.
The
only
other poiect.
ab