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Government at Peking.
on
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efs I have stated
previous occasions, the French naval officers who have visited Honghông do not conecal their dissatisfaction with the nature
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the operations on which they have been employed for several months pursuance (as it is understood), of direct orders from Paris. The blockade of Formosa, in particular, has proved a work of extreme_ difficulty and hardship to the French crews, owing to the total
absence
absence
of
secure harbours and
anchorages, and to the stormy and
dangerous seas which surround that island. Notwithstanding the
recent successed
of
the
the French arms
referred to above, it is still the opinion of the most competent judges among
foreign residents in China that it is improbable that the Chinese Government will
yield, at least for
some
further
time, to the French demands in
the present war, unless, as in the
previous
war
of 1858-61, an
expedition