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It will be recollected

that Langoon is the border - fortress

in the North of Tonquin, the complications respecting which led to the rupture of the convention agreed upon in the may of last. year between the Viceroy Li Hung- Chang and Captain Fournier of the It is believed that the

French navy capture of this commanding position

an

on the frontier will prove important step towards the completion of the conquest of Tonquin; for its possession by a strong French Force

should

of

should prevent the entrance of Chinese troops into that province by land; while the French blockading

squadron will stop any operations

by

Jea.

eAdmiral Courbet, with

4.

strong French naval force,

was

for

of the

some days in pursuit principal Chinese sea-going

squadron. On the 15th instant,

Chinese

were

frigate and corvette. sunk by torpedoes from the French flag-ship Bayard at Sheipos, not far from Ningpe. The

remaining

vessels