Show iLTY IN FORMOSA rnfNCJE Trade Junks and Working Snkillg Coolies to Death overland China Mail February 3d The amost unpleasant char < ewS of a C1ls Formosa through us from Mer reaches 3 jer asserted by a It is emphatically Tblc correspondent that the French 1ib1C l Tuiltv of acts of a been l guilty 1ave ouestionable character iu carry < 111ot socalled blockade This t the out I jug December 15th with raised on I ws served on either neu being l out notice Chinese It was renewed on or t1115 iili and since that date it is JlUa2l that native craft have been wan ffirnHl the small sampans von ionl dcgtloYld firewood it engaged in carrying vlucH arc cn TnjUi provisions from one vil charcoal another fi h not pro being spared Indeed lajc to anon infmmant the 1rench M4l1lr to our JliiVf 7 acMW V to a war of extermination I ml wlge haw begun seem to S the Clunese junk and uninst termination < u am the whole const boat pocrto of along the < e bo1ts mostly The Crffihenncn or traders are innocent rnboius0r they are for their boats or in lither Funk work 011 to cibly earried where off to their Kclul1g fate is nearly tH the b1tterie forced to work at the had They are rece1e no They 1iPjflt of the bayonet from the WhiCh theY fffft W I tLt food lxcept impressed at who were Anamese coolies able no longer when they arc snnron and CXlIIstIOn they are work tlJrouI11 the t 1 or shot down by txer bayoneted u1rd who stnnd over them day IDe 1l ht ffff of February 10th has Ihe C m corroboration of the folluwiI1 tbr The nccusations of cruelty JofeFt 1r against imiiKBi dotraction brought wd Fnmh fleet of Formosa and the jrmh at Kelung are being con = rrl1ldl troop t l iirnhll 1 daily There is now not the iILi1ZVt dinibt that the fleet is exter nunafnji tin innocent trading junks and 1ns W hiih ply on the coast of the iland f11l11I 111I11 hat their crews are killed I flY IK h < ts fired at them out i ul the machine guns or ire taken to Kilung where as ha already K 1 ii stated tluy are inhumanely treated i i with food lur neither uppliell Tnj are suj drink and when they are unfit for fu tiier Ioirk they art hot or bayoneted by the girl Ht over them There are widely 1 t1 1 jumnr that there L great dissat iaiiin among the troops of the For I Lii Livi11 anti l Algerian re l111ent s at Kduu The ifkness among these and I I the nun onboard the fleet is said to beI I enormous and to crown all a munity has iir ken out on hoard Admiral Courbets i j the Kijird and twelve men have b1 1 m sin it The disaffection among the lill i n on the slup > of the fleet has become smuv That Admiral Courbei with un hip lifluiiging to the fleet has LAd away trom the island of Formosa V I MaNii ilaiil just to give his men L1 relief imm the inaction from which tq 1 UlftV t I V S u The foreigners in Formosa are at I v e1t wry 11Clth loth with the Flinch 1 Lil I t1 T mn oilieials because they can u I t ot1lU ally letters 1 which may comer I 1 come-r tVin cither in British menofwar ort or-t The commanders of British 1 un J t iitmg the place refuse to land tli wail HIt by them because t led F le-d ii lmiral I 1 says they must not I I Fi OllISJ < Chronicle |