CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882 — Page 186

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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rague and conditional reports. I have sent to

has become

you.

The Chinese Gormment "

rexy

much alarme d

about the capture of Tonquin by France, and has threatened to send troops and gunbo a 13 to assist the Tonquin Hing. a nok from a French official, now on

now in Punten, in which he nconminde

I have

impress

me to

on you that in new of approaching difficulty, the Funch Govt will be anxious to have a Cable quickly, laid from Cape

Jame

hai mạc tại gen) là đại phong (Tonquin ). My friend has writher to Saigon about the matter, and has given me leths to high Gormt. Officials in

in Laigon . Ito day sent

Sp

sent to you

a service message

on the matter.

Thare no

further details but hear that

Adml. Meyer, French Commander in Chief, with whom I am acquainted will probably soon be in Saigon

to arrange for

military

and naval priporations

for securing Tonquin against

Chinese attack.

About the Macao

Hongking Cable there is no

nothing

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