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informed we that he has received from

a reliable quarter au account of an engagement betwon the French and, Chinese forces in Tonquin about the be or 7th instant.

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2.

re

It is stated that the Freuch

-inforcements, amounting

to

seven

thousand (7000) mun, have arrived

at Haifeng,

and that, when thus

: strengthened, the French army

advanced towards the Chimuse frontier-

up

the Loonan river. The Chinese &

forces encamped at Chii, a place not marked on the maps, but lying between Liang-giang and Correngane, were

attacked

attacked; three lines of entrenchment wer

carried; and two batteries of Freepp, guns,

with all the ammunition and stores,"

were captured . The loss on the Freuch side is reported at nineteen (19) killed, and eixty four (64) wounded; while that of the Chinese is estimated at.. six hundred (600) killed. The Freuch

wvere

to advance on

Laugson

on the

15th instant. A desultory warfare.

may

be waged for a long period;

without definite results,

a

4, among

the

mountains and river-intersected:

plain of Torquin.

3.

The

only

other poiect.

ab