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3.

At

now remains to be

seen what will be the next step

taken by the Frrich, in es

consequence of the refusal of the Chinese Government to pay the large indemnity demanded. All will depend on the orders received from Paris by Admiral Courbet.

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4.

I am

informed,

high authority, that the Chinese Government would be

willing

to leave this question to the arbitration of a neutral Fower, but that the French have declined all

proposals

proposals of this nature. It is further stated that the Chinese Government would be ready to

a sum

pay a taels (about

of half-a-million of

of:

one hundred thousand

pounds, £10000d), by way of compensation to the families of the French soldiers who fell at Langon

in

Tonquin, but that they demeur to the payment of a regular indemnity

5.

have

avar

My medical advisers urged the necessity of

visit to Japan

to recruit

a

my

health