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not recognizing that "Imitation is
"the most sincere flattery/; and that France is only doing
only doing in Indo- China what England has already
done in India Proper.
Cambodia is described
as a rich and fertile country, watered by the noble river Meikong, with a population of about a
million, and an area
of
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sixty two thousand (62,000) square - miles. Its practical union with
the French dominions cannot, in
view of the restless
energy of
Fruch
French ambition, fail to produce
some uneasiness in the conterminous
Kingdom of diam... "But (to quote
from
recent public writer at
"Hongkong), whatever Siam may think of the step, there can be little question that the French - "Protectorate will prove beneficial generally, to the Cambodian people. "Under the direct rule of the "Native Dynasty, the Mandarins – have oppressed the peasants and trading classes; justice has been sold to the highest bidder, slavery
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