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of the desultory hostilities which, during some time past, have been carried on in Tonquin, and in Formosa; for my despatches would have been anticipated by the telegraph, and because, until quite lately, no decisive advantage appeared to have been gained

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either side.

However, the arrival

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1 of re-inforcements from France seems to have infused fresh vigour into

the French

army in Tonquin, which

had, for a lengthened period,

remained

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remained comparatively inactive; and into the French Fleet, which,

for several months past, had done little beyond maintaining a ___ somewhat imperfect blockade of the island of Formosa. On the 18th instant, I addressed to Your Lordship a telegram to the following

effect:-

"The French took Langson

on

"the 13th instant; and on the 15th -

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instant, they destroyed with an

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torpedoes two Chinese men-of-war · "near Ningpo!"