Show France and China charge Paris ds 17n fs said the English daffaires at Petln duced the Chinese has in that China cabinet to declare wm French abstain be satisfied if the Bon and OK T from BInh invading Lang forces at Bacnlnh kr The Chinese withdraw 25 league are ordered to The mediation of AmerBortSwd Amenicaafter capture of Bacninh after the is J considered certain London 17A leading of the Chinese legation InEmber viewed stated that Chin being inter had declared war against France not though her memorandum al to Premier Ferry declared that an assault on Sontay Hunghoa or Bac umh would be causus belli and would be carried out to the letter When Sontay wa capturedMarquis peng withdrew from France to England to await instructions from the llhinPCQ nnrrarnmnnL mi 5 V UauCL1Ii meat instructions tong had t since re ceived but their tenor could not be divulged The attack upon Son tav was a violation of the friendly relations between thetwo countries but Tseng would not therefore make a formal declaration of war against France France attacked both Hue and Sontay without declaring de-claring war against China and now threatened to attack Bacninh where there were large bodies of Chinese troops which would meet the French forces and protect Bacninh with all their powers The Chinee minister to Spain has recently visited England but the report was not true that his 1 object was to see Lowell United I States minister to obtain the mediation medi-ation of the United States government I govern-ment Tseng the attache continued contin-ued was visiting London on business for the Chinese legation but it was not unlikely that he would discuss with Granville British Brit-ish foreign secretary the present position of affairs between China and France The attache most positively posi-tively declared that China had never entertained a proposal to evacuate Bacninh as a basis of negotiations ne-gotiations for a settemeat of the Tonquin question |