Show SAVAGE ON THE TONKiN BORDER VICTORIA B. B c C. C Sept St 3 z xe News 3 was ivas received b by tho the Empress of India from south China of the ambush of French Tench troops in a valley near ao on the Tonkin border Captain FInery Fluery leader of tho f force rc and Li Lieutenant De- De latro latTo were shot down soon after the tho fight opened and GOO Chinese had a position on low hills at atrach each rach side of ofa a gully Uj t through which tho the French troops entered tho the village Tho The French captured the village twice it bein being retal retaken en b by the Chinese Shots were exchanged ed durin during the tho greater part Vart of the fl fight ht at from thirty to fifty meters When Captain Finery Fluery and Lieutenant Lieu tenant Delatre who went Wen t to assist the leader lender were shot tb tho Chinese threw w themselves es upon tho the bodies not yet yot dead and decapitated them carrying away tho heads amid cheers |