Show FIGHTING FRANCE the war clouds lower deeper and deeper on the gulf ulf of tong tonging fing china resists the aggressions of france on anam L by western asad prea ire to the Il herald lerald 1 PARIS sept 6 0 A dispatch from froin ila phong says that no CI chinese inese laan of war has arrived there from the coith aith three chinese Cli inese transports readied reached pa koi a fortnight ago with wit h regulars and 1750 1730 militia arrived ate at Canton anton on oil saturday last on oil aboard board a steamer I 1 la largo rge quantities of supplies sup and provisions aro are bei being ig collected and stored at canton KONG koa kept sept 6 A correspondent at hong liong kong writes that hoods prevent mh everit tile operation opera tiou u of troops both sides no steamers have conle como from froin nam I 1 ding or lift ila noi for six six days and there isi nuell till uneasiness easi ness in consequence of the tile blockade and many va vague F 0 run rumors lors believed it la is believed th that at courbet intends to blockade canton and arid bombard it unless tho the chinese withdraw from froin the adamese frontier aramede from iia noi nol say that the gunboats gun boats again advanced to pu ila koi 1 and I 1 nd were repulsed twelve of the tile french were killed the gunboats gun boats had no effect on oil tile earth forks tina this confirms the rumors reaching here from cilium sources BERLIN sept 7 in view of the recent eventa in ton tong king the german envoy to pe lie king kin now on a furlough fir lough lias has been ordered to return to hid his poet sept 7 it is said that dr harmond the french civil commissioner for tong king planned the expedition tion to hue ordered tile bombardment bar dment of the forts on nil the hue aliver and concluded the tile treaty with will anam all on oil his own responsibility the government is extremely annoyed marquis presented to france Frat alte some timen tim eago 0 o at the tile request of chal lemel lacour a statement of chinas cainas proposal with re reference fere nee to tong kine king lie le now asks in return a statement of the french counter proposals the interview between Tseng and arid Cli challe alle mcl luel lacour was very cordial it wai was con confined alt altogether ozether to the exchange of ideas intended to lead tho the way way to bulther fuit lier treaty stipulations arriving at a basis theroan to establish mutual agreement LONDON sept 7 A hong kong correspondent writes the french represent tile eluo treaty as tho tile settling tai lag of the toni tong king question oh the representation ignot is not a true one the difficulty id Is to deal with china not with anam china alone can open song koe she is willing to make it an international water way if the eu kopcan powers america request her to do ao so this is the tile only lie ble solution of the tile question at issue tho the ditri district ct of hat phong is still flooded and all oie operations rations are suspended LONDON sept 7 A dispatch from hong kong states the Chin chentse tse merchants arc are leaving ilai phong instead of canton as previously reported on account of tho the opening of their letters by the french authorities who ace accuse use them thein of writing to the chinese mandarins in the nines 2 paris special e 1 I al says both the governments of china h in a and france are equally desirous of procuring a peaceful solution of the tong king question if it can bo be effected ital with honor the tile general sentiment favors tho hope that all issues involved may bo be submitted to the arbitration or of england the tile 9 paris special we says orders have been sent to toulon and other naval stations to save transports ready for embarking by tho the latter part of september of ten thousand men inen for china I 1 |