CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6] — Page 541

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French

recent action of France with regard to Cambodia, while it enlarges and consolidates the new- Empire in Indo-China, will not (as & am informed), materially alter the condition of affairs previously existing. For, ever --- since the treaty of 1868, which placed Cambodia under the protection of France, that __ Kingdom has been practically a French dependency. It would appear that an administrative

now been added to the

has now

former

seems

-former political Protectorate. It

• probable that Annam and it's covereign, though hitherto somewhat resaleitrant, may, at

distant date, follow the

novery

fate of Cambodia and of its Prince; and, as the French

-

the

journals often repeat, - of King of Oude and of many

other

Potentates in British former India. For, as I have remarked

previous occasions, Frenchmen are never tired of reflecting :the perversity of the English in

on

not

زله

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