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really profit by French conquests the Indo-Chinese peninsula. It appears that there is hardly any French Commerce in Tonquin; and that, notwithstanding the privileges secured for the French port of Saigon, the merchandise imported from that place does not exceed the insignificant sum of twenty-three thousand eight hundred (23,800) francs; while the imports from China, that is, are one principally from Hong Kong, one hundred and forty-one times greater, and amount to a sum of nearly three and a half millions of francs. And with regard to the export trade of Tonquin, it appears that Saigon received hardly any merchandise of value from Tonquin, the exports of which, valued at above two millions of francs, are destined chiefly for Hong Kong. These, it will be recollected, are the statements of French Officers and political writers, who also admit, further, that if even the route through Tonquin into the neighbouring Provinces of China acquires its proper and "natural importance," it will be Hong Kong.
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really profit by French conquests the Indo-Chinese peninsula. It m appears that there is hardly any French Commerce in Tonquin; and that, notwithstanding the privileges -scoured for the French port of Saigon, the merchandise imported from that place does not exseed the insignificant
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of twenty three thousand eight.. hundred (23,800) franes; while the __ imports from China, that is,
are one
principally from Honghong. -hundred and forty one times greater, and amount to a sum of nearly
three.
three and a half millions of franes. and with regard to the export trade of of Tonquin it appears that Saigon
hardly any merchandise of
received
value from Tonquin, the exports of
which, valued at above two millions
of francs, are destined chiefly for Bong Kong. These, it will be recollected,
French Officers and
are the statements
of
political writers, who also admit,
further, that if even the route through Tonquin into the neighbouring Provinces of China acquires its proper and "natural importance, "it will be
Hongkong
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