The French in Tonquin
Advices from Tonquin to tho Paris Temps 'of Oct. 19, describe the situa■ion as very gloomy. Since the beginling of the summer three thousand frenchmen have died from cholera, and argo numbers are daily succumbing to hat disease. The mortality among tho
■oops hinders the progress of the cam-
paign. The reinforcements that arc sent from France are scarcely sufficient to fill the gaps made in the French ranks by the plague. Despatches on the 22nd say, the ■ French troops recontly made a recounoissance from Honghoa to-Huanquan, and found for-
Lidable numbers of the Black Flags in
the vicinity of these places. Three thousand fresh troops we about to leave Franco for Tonquin.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 265, 14 November 1885, Page 7
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