Show I FlttXCH CRUELTY IN FORMOSA Trade TunIcs and Working Sinking Coolies to Death The overland China Vail February 3d News s of a most unpleasant char I fBY e reaches from Formosa through acter v It is emphatically asserted by a iLli correspondent that the French reliable I hare been guilty of acts of a Questionable character in carry 1nOFt Iuo out the socalled blockade This igs raised on December 15th with was out notice being served on either neu Chinese It was renewed on trals or date it is 5th and since that JaUt1f firnwd that native craft have been Avan a destroYed even the small tampans tonly firewood in carrying flggCl en which are from one dl fih and provisionS c1u1floal A bemg sptred Indeed anotlllr sar Ii lat to informmt the lrench ordin to our 5ordiig to wage a war of ex begun feC111 to haYc against the Chinese junk and I termination long thc whole coast i hot people boats mostly these of The creS traders are iunoeent fishermen or for I or they are m their boats v oJ ther Kink intu u 1 n e to WOJ on Kclung Ih I cirrie 1 off to I 1Cfl1l1 fate IS their terieg where tS IiebatteriC5 b l c forccd to work t t Ie 1 They arc 1 They receiVe no PulIlt 1 of the tt1whkh bayonet tlleVget from the food CXCCPt who were inipreSC at 1 1 Ulle < ooIies able + iit1 I rlICIl they arc no longer UTOll tlinwjrb exhaustion I t they are york baroneted J t or shot down by I the ller lr who stand over them day tIDN = u 111111 lImll vail of February 10th has TJpl in corroboration of the folloJrin the < ton The accusations of cruelty m and iijoiv wanton destruction brought against lie irciuh fleet of Formosa and the Inmlitiotipat Kclung are being confirmed con-firmed daily There is now not the elicliKM 1 doubt that the fleet is exter ihiiialinj the innocent trading junks and Kiinjun hi di ply on the coa t of the hlaiiil and that their crews are killed liv 1 t Ill hut > > fired at them out ot the machine guns or ie taken to Kilung where as I has already IKHII stated they are inhumanely treated Till y au > neither supplied with food nor < innk and when they are unfit for further Aiork thin are shot or bayoneted by the pi ud st OWl them There are widely juvjd luiiKrs that there is i great dissat Mulion i among the troops of the For urii Legion 1 and Algerian legimenls at Kilunjr The bickne among these and the men on board the fleet is said to be enormous = and to crown all a munity has liokon out on board Admiral Courbets thip the Bayard and twelve men have bit n shot The disaffection among the men till the ships of the fleet has become MI I slnui that Admiral Cornbet with sun hlnps belonging to the fleet has niweJ an from the island of Formosa in Mat > IJU < iland just to give his men mo reliti iroia the inaction from which tht MM in to iuffer The foreigners in Formosa are at jr Hat wry wroth both with the French I ant tlw r own official because they can I lilt obtain any letters which may come tir them cither in British menofwar or I iue The commanders of British puniiuts visiting the place refuse to land the mails sent by them because the 1 renrli Admiral says they must not Su Frniirtscu Chronicle |