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FRANCE AND CHINĂ,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1883.

not only useless but a positive encumbrance to a cruising fleet. The very, great mechanical merits of the vessels built for China by Ann-

If recent intelligence from Peking is worthy

& Co, will, in time of war, constitute a strong of credence, war between China and France over serious disadvantage. There are no highly the Tonquin question seems inevitable. It is trained Chinese mechanics or skilled Chinese cently reported in the north, and apparently gunners, and the vessels, filled as they are with good authority, that Li Hung Chang, the re-disabled in active service through the ignorance delicate and elaborate machinery, will he quickly doubtable Viceroy of Chilli and Grand Secretary and facompetence of the Chinese crews. of the Empire, has received positive instructions. With regard to the Chinese land forces, the from the Tring - Yamen to proceed without delay only toldier of in spite a dobos men, but to the southern provinces, to superintend warlike Chill Lt had in 1876 about 60,000 men, but owing to the revolt 1877 and subsequent operations for the defence of China's butary, genen! retrenchment, the force does not now It is said that the note of warlike preparation has exceed 45,000 and bern sounded throughout Chihli, and that ex- infantry friments, and may, even, be less. The clothed, drill well, tensive drafts of trained soldiers with all the Mauser breech-loader. The cavalry is deficient and are armed with one good rifle, the German paraphernalia of modem warfare will shortly be in number, and of little use, save for scouting poured into Kwangtung and Kwang-sl. It is Theartillery is not bad, and against Chinese rebels even sumoured that the great Viceroy himself on Chinese soil would be capable of acting with will shortly arrive in Canton to personally direct effect. But against French or Russian artillery the Chinese force would be rather helpless. Li the movements of his "braves." Although all

has from 16 to 20 batteries of Krupp's 9 and 16- these may be idle rumours there can be no

pounder fields guns, but the guns have been bought during a number of years, and are of three patiems, each of which is for different charges, and the guns vary accordingly in trajectory force and quality. The ammunition and

projectiles made for No. 1 are 'uscicas for Nos. the drill, too, varies somewhat. The Chinese artillery, therefore, would not be a trustworthy shifted from Chibli to Canton, or Kwangi, it is or useful force, and If the magazines have to be

certain that intolerable confusion will arise,

denying the fact that the political horizon is not re-assuring.

As any day might bring us news that the dogs of war had been slipped in Tonquin by the Chinese Government, all Information bearing on the probabls results of a contest between France and the immense resources of the Middle Kingdom must at the present time be especially interesting. We therefore reproduce from our Shanghai contemporary, the Mercury, two articles on the subject, which we are sure will be read with interest. We do not, of course, hold ourselves responsible in any way for the views held by our contemporary; although it must be admitted that in many mapects we thoroughly agree with the conclusions arrived

cause of offence to the French Government

of

The ultimatum addressed by President Grévy to the King of Tongking, according to the last news from France, will soon be answered

by Peking, as the Chinese statesmen have to decide, and decide quickly, upon action against France, or acquiescence in the virtual annexation of An- nam and Tougking to France. The thought of having France for a neighbour will be very dis agreeable to the Chinesa officials and people; especially as the misgoverned people of Yunnan and Kwangsi are sure before long to give just Tengking by some raiding, expeditions of the black band" and other brigands; the con- sequence of which will be that France will have ready to her hands valid prelexts for interference upon Chinese soil. And though Kwangsi would be of but little value, the mineral wealth of Yunnan is very great, and if worked by French miners would yield great revenues to the French occupiers. I! Peking is unwilling that Tongking and Annam should become French territory, action will have to be taken at once. It will be well, therefore, to con- sider the forces that may be arrayed against each other.

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bound for Shanghai; experienced thick foggy Left Hongkong on the 11th instant, at 5 p.m.,

weather with heavy showers of rain. Stood well off the coast. After midnight the weather cleared, At 4 nm, next day observed a suspicious looking dark object on the starboard bow, right in the beaten track of vessels; reduced speed and steamed twice slowly round it, keeping the steam whistle going. It proved to be a dismasted foreign vessel, and our signals not being answered, suspected. Launched a boat and sent an arined boarding that pirates might be concealed on board. party in charge of second officer and third engineer to examine her. Found her abandoned. Took possession and talled on to her, shaping course for Swatow, our nearest port,

At daylight put fresh water and two days' provisions on board; hoisted the British ensign and the Company's House Flag on her; Cupchi Point bore N. by V., distant about 17 miles; observed a steamer NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. passing to the castward Stationed the second

FIRST INTERIM BONUS of TWENTY officer, the boatswain and four native sailors

per cent, upon Contributions for the year. on board; put the second officer in charge: he

1882 has this day been DECLARED. commanded her exceedingly well. She was. the Mataram of Sourabaya, 457 tons régis. WARRANTS may be had on Application at ter, with innumerable genuine Indian cockroaches the Office of the Society on and after the aist roaches looked pretty well starved and rather on board, but no other crew visible; the cock-instant.

By Order of the Board, ...." sickly; one emaciated elderly cockroach was

DOUGLAS JONES, actually dying from want of food and Sulphate

Acting Secretary. of Quinine, being the worse for Java lever; Hongkong, 7th May, 1883.

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The raw material of the troops is; however, good,; it was a pitiful sight; heart-

It would be lost time if we discussed the quali ties of the provincial armies of China; as they are mere mobs of men, some few with good arms, and the majority armed just the same as in 1843. and given time, liberal outlay, skilled officers, and scientific direction, China would become a formidable military power. But at present the only real soldiets in the Empire are these of L, and his officers are unskilled and of indifferent quality, utterly unfit to carry on operations of war, except such as are purely defensive, against a trained enemy.

The real defence of China is her remoteness.

Her helmsman had easy times of it,

there was no rudder; owing to this cir- cumstance she cut some capers and pranks and tricks, which would have defied and seriously puzzled the ingenuity of even Professor Hasel mayer. She was minus her bower anchors." The broken mainmast hung in a slanting ticular nondescript and unseamanilke direction over to port. The foremast had taken a final departure, men, korses, and stores, petite firme porte company of jibboom and main-topmast. The of men, horses, and stores, and climate with ceremony of going over the inventory was extremes of heat and cold, the badness of the not required, previous visitors having taken stock already; they had not left their cards or down most unmistakeably. Everything on board photographs, but they had put their "mark being more or less hacked, broken and torn to pieces; the copper had been stripped off her sides.

Serving through the Sugar Loaf Pass, the schooner required the whole width of the Pass for herself, to manoeuvre through, owing to her want of rudder; she, sheered from one side to the other like a porpoise.

Arrived at Swalow at 7.30 p.m., on the rath inst; and moored both vessels securely for the night.

ways of communication, and the difficulty of of the Empire against a foreign foc. We know |feeding European troops, are the real bulwarks how costly the Anglo-Franco expedition of 1860 became, and what the enormous outlays of the Russian Empire were in 1879 and 1880, although Russis would have had in Japan a convenient and adequate base of operations. But the very quality of inaccessibility, valuable as it is, also re-acts against China when she is called on to deferid should, as is reported, take to Canton with him the North West, Tongking, or Korca. If Li 20,000 or 30,000 men of the forces of Chibli, his difficulties will be immense. First, transport by

The steamer left Swalow next day at 3 P sea will be requisite, and the China. Merchants' 5. N. Co. fleet is utterly inadequate to take even for Shangbai; vessels at Swatow-Steamships 10,000 men in six weeks time. Then there will Albay, Chefoo, Chiynen, Ferntower, Pechili, be the transport of stores and munitions of war to Rajánostianuhar, Swatow, Taiwan, Tientsin, France has, or will have within a month, about provide for. In Canton there are no magazines schooner ifataram and two other vessels. 12,000 French troops in Cochin-China, Annam, full el Mauser cartridges or Krupp shell, and for

Off Ockset had dense i and Tongking, and in addition there are 10,000 a warlike expedition, such as the defence of observed some floating wreckage of foreign origin e fog, jogged along slowly; to 11,000 Annamese, well armed and effective as Tongking, every soldier requires 5oo cartridges, like pieces of a deck house, mostly painted white. indigenous troops, who have been trained by and

that is:-300 with his column and 200 in store, Saw a full rigged man of war a short distance off are officered by Frenchmen. In case of dispute, and every Krupp cannon should have 200 pro-heading to the North-eastward. She was driving France, which has a large fleet of steam tran-jectiles and powder charges. Besides the force along under a heavy press of canvas, but no sports, can land in Saigon in 32 days after de

must have reserves of rifles, and machine shops steam; it was nearly calm at the time. From parture from Toulon or Marseilles, 10,000 or for effecting repairs. In Canton there are no Turnabout to port had variable winds, and an or more Algerian or Turco soldiers, whose reserves of rides, and no machinery. Everything interesting assortment of all kinds of weather. At physical qualities, dress, and mode of life, fit must be transported from Tientsin..

noon to-day (16th inst.), passed a Chinese frigate them admirably for the operations of war in a hot climate.

and five gunboats outside Woosung, under steam, like strategics; got past them without harm. Ar rived at Shanghai at 3 pm, on the 16th.

The French fleet is to be reinforced, but no details have been given yet of the vessels that are to come to increase Admiral Meyer's fleet. At present the French fleet in the Chinese waters Is but small. The flag ship is the Victorieuse, an iron-clad of smaller site and lesser battery

than H.M.S. Audacious. The next vessel in point of size is the fast corvette Villars. The rest of the fleet is composed of sloops and avisos, with a few gun-boats. The Goverment of Saigon has, however, a small force of light drafted gun-boats fit for river work.

land à almost impossible. By sea, the French That Li should go to Tengking by sea or by Beet will guard the entrance to Tongking, and a march from Canton to Kwangsi or. Yunnan of any considerable force is out of the question.

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If the Chinese, wish to have an army their rulers must reverse their past policy. The first thing to be done should be the training of officers for all the services, the formation of camps, uniformity of drill, armament, &c., and the creation of strategic intercommunications, Just now some Chinese soldiers have good arms, but the officers, one and all, áre without know- ledge of their profession. Some provinces have French drill, others adopt a mixed German THEATRE system; in Canton the Manchus are dilled in the English method. Chilli has the Mauser gun, Fohkien the Remington, and the Liang-

science, no uniformity; everything relating to the Chinese army is confused, contradictory, and unworkable.

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Saigon is well found in stores, and it should be recollected that four or five years ago large, quantities of ammunition and war stores were sent from France to Saigon, to be in readiness for the expedition which was to have been madekiang the Chassepot and Snider. There is no in 1880. under command of Admiral Duperré. Saigon, therefore, will be a good and sufficient base of operations for a war in Tongking, or upon Chinese seil.. It must be remembered that if France is vexed by the action of China, more likely than not the war would be transferred from Tongking to Canton, as there would be obvious advantages in attacking China upon Chinese soil, at some one important strategic point, such as Canton. An attack could be readily made by a great naval and military power, such as France leve

On the Chinese side there are the Foochow gunboats, a well built, and as far as hulls, Engines, and guns go-efficient flotilia. There are, also, the two cruising rams, each of which carries two 25-ton guns of 10 inches calibre, and the ten or twelve Alphabetical gunboats. The Shanghal fleet counts as nothing. Now in good hands, and under skilful direction, the Foochow gunboats, the runs, and the Armstrong gunboats would be a very powerful force that Could not be disregarded, but in the hands of Chinese officers, and under the direction of a Chinese Admiral, the force will prove to be a okam.

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As regards the land force of China, there are in the two Kiange, Ylinnan and Kwel-chau, no doubt, a considerable number of braver " but although we have no certain knowledge of Yun nan and Kwel-chaus troops we may expect to find that they are ill-armed, ill-equipped, and worthless mobs of men, and the Cantor troops for the most part, are sill, mod with, spear and matchlocks, Li's dependence, therefore, in the event of hostilities, would be solely placed upon the men of his own Chihli amy who would, no doubt, be sent to Kwangtung in considerable numbers. Li's men are well drilled, fairly equipped, and are, for the most part, armed with the, Mauser breech-/ loaders, has also from 16 to 20 batteries, or from 96 to 120 field guns of Krupp's make, and a considerable number of Gatling gUERENZA

Probably Li could array 30,000 men for war in Capt. Mignard's Kwangtung, but that he can land troops in say in regard to Annam the latter is perhaps Tongking, or take active operations in Tongking, true, If. M. Bourée is to remain here to we doubt. The Chinese are rusming great risks, get up some plea how to arrange affairs ami and if the French come into collison with LI, China will lose territory, and have to pay large cably and Ma. Kien-tsung, who is said to sums lot, indermuity. To war against France, Mr. Frandrin, who acted as interpreter of the factors in the Annam and Korean will be the height of folly, Tomorrow we will to Admiral Dupré, and Mr. Bourée at the begin-

is the right man in the right place. ters any operations of war except defence of posl-

Races, and the Annam French affair. All kinds It is a stirring time here. There are the of reports are flying about, but one thing is sures the Chinese mean it about Antiam The Viceroy of Vinnan and Kwelchow has troops on the neutral ground of Annam, some say 10,000. really 30,000 perhaps. Li Hung-chang, with his Canton. On Monday next, as per His telegram, Lieutenant; Lui Ming-chang, is to go direct to THE SIDE SPLITTING BURLESQUE Moderate Charger Guaranteed circulation of he will be in Shanghat it will be seen whether he will obey, the Emperor's canimanda or make

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point out how useless the Chinese army is for Bink** returning, it may be settled yet, as it is

Yesterday we pointed out the relative forces of China and france that way yet, if the Peking Government be insensate be arrayed against each other *The Chinese fleet, which comprises weful gun- boats, bearam-cruisers of exceptional power and speed, andabouta dozen till craft, each carrying one cannon of enormous site and range, would, in: skilful hands, almost sufice for the defence of the coast of Chinais But for war in the gulf of Tong king, away from machinesiions repairing docks, and coal depots, the alphabetical gunboats will be:

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latter works to mine hear China dedes nine-tenths of Tongking, it, then must include the place where the mines varen It will be seen by and bys what the Bource con- "yestion really was ; if it contained all this, why France must be wrong in rejecting so favourable 'a convention."

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SPARKLING WATERS,

TYPHOON 8

salenud under OF THE - 19/-/--EASTERN SEAS

SIM BREVET LIEUT COL H SEPALMER ROYAL ENGINEERS, Being a Review of Pere Dechevren's Work on

the Typhoons of the Chias Sea, KELLY & WALSH HON Hengkang, soth November, 1882.

IS

THREE DOZEN FOR ONE DOLLAR. “All Orders and Conquammigations mhósuld be ade dressed to The Factory!

7 BEACONSFIELD ARCADE *Hongi257 11th April, 1182. –

UNMAKERS & AMMUNITION

DEALERS,

BEACONSFIELD ARCADE A

Armi, Ammunitions, and Requisites of

every description.or

Arms Repaired, Cleaned, or Converted at moderate charges, f

Sporting Guns and Ammunition always on hand

CHS. 1 GAUPP & COM CHRONO

“HRONOMETER; WATCH, AND.

BEST CLOCK-MAKERS/S: N JEWELLERS, SILVER-SMITHS, AND

LAVE

CHARTS, AND BOOKS NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS.

for Louis Audemars Watches awarded the

#highest Prizes at every Exhibition) and

for Vogtländer Sand Salim s

GLABEL, AND ESPYOLIMER,

18, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRALE