LATE CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 293, 14 November 1883, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

; The French m Tonquin. - The London Press on the Annexation r^ [Question^ ■ ,\ "■'■- [age specials.] . . (PUB UNIIJEDy T'«EBS ASSOCIATION.) ; H London, October 30. M." Lacour, the.-Fivnch Minist r for Foreign Affairs, stated m the Chamber of Deputies last night that France was determined to pur«u° the policy which he had' initiated in? regard ,to Tonquin, and that ho would not be deterred by China. No definite decision was arrived at by tlie Chamber,' but it is cer.tain, that the Deputies will support Lacour m his resolutions. War betwqen France and China? is therefore considered to be imminent. .^ The joining Post and Pall Mall '&Wtt£ contain^ articles on the annexation quention, bearing special reference to the fear expressed by the Australian Colojiifts that Fianceuntended to_utilb<e; a number of the ialands m the South Pacific as a receptacle for habitual -criminals. Both journals appeal to France to abandon her original intention m regard to the deportation: of ciimiuala. November 2. Latest advices from Tonqnin intimate I hat China' has resolved to defen3 Bac Ninh, the town against -which the . French forces recently, inarched Jbutre^ •: treated,, finding that it/was defended Krupp guns.