CO129-169 - Others - 1874 — Page 251

to the three wolditional Provinces in Cochin China. Perhaps

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I may obsewe that probably "Hanoi," as mentioned by Lyons in his desp. Ne 347 of the 19th of April, is the Port

The to

hosts ne Thin-Mi

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to be opened to Foreign Trade & Hanoi by the Treaty, together with

Two others not

yet named.

The River Son-coi is navigable through Tonquin into the

& it was

Chinese Province of Yün- nan,

by

this route that M. Dupuis supplied the Chinese

Troops with arms & ammunition, in their war with the Panthaup, which he purchased at Roughing

&

&

conveyed up the Balar River to Hanoi, & wo, by the Son-coi,

into yun.

nan. This was the

origin of the troubles with 218

Anniam: the annumite

resisted the carrying of

+

Goot

merchandize arms &., by Dupris, through their territory without passing duties or obtaining permission to navigate the rivers, but to this he paid no attention & pushed on in defiance of the Goot..

What the connection between him & Admiral Dupré, the

Good of Saigon, was, is not very

clear; but, when the

Garnier tragedy took place, it was reported that the officer in

question had been sent by Admiral Dupré to investigate

the