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me that a blockade will be

established from March the 7th

on Vakhoi and the neighbouring

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eeast of

China

from

the frontier

of Tonquin to the 107%h meridian of longitude."

This blockade was

announced to the French Consul

at Hongkong by a telegram from Captain de Beaumont, commanding

the French Naval Forces in

dated at Haiphong

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It was added that no

Tonquin,

the 5th instant.

notice of the

to the Foreign

blockade could be given

Corrar

Foreign Consuls at Pakhoi, as no

communications were

-possible

between the French Naval Forces

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and that port. Consequently, I telegraphed to the above effect to the British Consul at lakhoi (Mr.

3.

Allen).

It

appears

that the

longitude referred to is reckoned by the French from Paris; and, therefore, the blockade would seem to extend from the

frontier

of Tonquin to a short distance to the East of the Treaty Fort of Pakhoi,

which

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