FRANCE AND CHINA.
i War Declared- i All Mediation Abandoned. Canton to be Attackfti. U (by, electeio telegraph,-g.opteight) (reuters' telegrams.) , _;-.; ;Lf ndon, : January 12. , It has transpired that the Chinese Qoverninent has virtually declared waragainst France, and that all hopes of a peaceful . settlement .of the Franco^ Chinese difficulty have been abandoned. Jt is .understood;, that the French have; already formed designs for an attack m force upon. Canton, and it is expected that, a ; movement thither Will shortly; be made by. a large naval and military force. It, is, reported 1 hat, an immediate advance upon Bacninh will be made by the French army m Tonquin.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 39, 14 January 1884, Page 2
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