Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-29
FRANCE MORE WARLIKE.
IMPORTANT SESSION OF THE
TONQUIN COMMITTEE.

TONQUIN COMMITTEE.
Six Thousand Additional Troops to be
Dispatched without MobilIzation-M.
Ferry Explains the Correspondence
with NJ. Tseng-Fnller Details of Ad-
miral COurbet's Plans.
PARIS, Nov. 2S.-In the Chamber of
Deputies to-day NJ. Clemenceau, on be-
half of the Extreme Left, requested NJ.
Ferry to furnish an explanation concern
ing the Chinese memorandum relative to
the proposed attack on Bacninh. NJ.
Ferry declined to reply. NJ. Clemenceau
Will repeat the question at to-morrow's
session of the Chamber, and if an answer
is not then given, he will bring the matter
forward in the shape of an Interpolation.
1t is stated that NJ. Ferry has requested
the committee on the Tonquin credits to
postpone the presentation of their report
to the Chamber of Deputies for three
days.
NJ. Ferry, Prime Minister and Minis
ter OF Foreign Affairs, Gen. CamperOn.
Minister of War, and Admiral Peyron'
Minister of Marine, attended a meeting
to-day of the Committee of the Chamber
of Deputies to report on the Tonquin
credits. NJ. Ferry impaired to the Com
mlttee the contents of the China memo
randum. The committee unanimously
approved of the French reply thereto, and
decided it to be unnecessary to bring the
matter before the Chamber of Deputies
prior to the debate upon the Tonquin
credits. because, first, there existed no
diplomatic rupture; second, the govern
ment had promised that the yellow
book should contain the men,
orandum and reply to the
Chinese memorandum, which stated that
France had imposed upon the Government
OF AMMAN an unjust treaty, and had ig-
nOred the rights of China. France had
invaded AMMAN, and had manifested an
intention to take Bacninh, the KEY to the
Chinese empire. China desired, never
theless, to maintain pacific relations with
France, but Chinese troops would be COM
PEELED to resist aggression. To avert
blOodshed, China appealed to the tradi-
tiOns of honor and of loyalty cherished by
France, and expressed the regret she
would feel if events forced China to make
her rights respected.
The French reply declared that France
had no wish to annex AMMAN or Tonquin:
that the sole object of the Hue treaty was
to define the terms of the treaty of 1874:
that in order to consolidate the prOtecto-
rate of TOnquin, France considered it eX-
pedient to occupy Bacninh and SOntay,
but there was nothing TO prevent an
equitable arrangement of the question on
this basis, from which France had never
swerved and which were indicated in the
treaty of 1874. NJ. Ferry explained
to the committee that he had ad-
dressed note to Marquis Tseng,
the Ambassador from China
in which he made the suggestion that
special powers should be entrusted to the
military chiefs for the purpose of effect
ing an understanding by which China
should surrender Bacninh and SOntay
peacefully to Admiral Courbet, and that
a definite settlement could be negotiated
afterwards. The above note crossed one
from Marquis Tseng drawing attention to
the fact that French troops were then
present in TOnquin, but without defining
their locality. Marquis Tseng afterwards
declined the proposal of NJ Ferry, but
the latter believes that the Ambassador
acted in the matter without awaiting in
structiOns from Pekin.
Gen. Camperon said that measures had
been taken to dispatch 6,OOO troops forth
with to TOnquin without recourse even to
their partial mobilization. Admiral Pey-
ron informed the commission that he had
received no fresh dispatches from Ad-
miral COurbet, whose operations had
commenced, or were on the point of COM
mencing, at the date of his last dispatch
November IL, when he announced that he
had completed the concentration of his
forces for an attack upon Bacninh. He
believed that Admiral COurbet awaited
the arrival of the transport Correze
with 600 troops on board. She is
due in TOnquin to-day. Admiral Courbet
had been gwen full latitude to act in Ton
quin and he Admiral Peyron) had every
confidence in his prudence and energy.
The vote i'll the Committee of the Cham
Der of Deputies on granting the Tonquin
credits was 8 TO in favor thereof. The
amount is nine million francs.
lie Figaro asserts that Admiral COurbet
has informed the government that he
can't make his projected advance on Son
tay without additional reinforcements.
1t is said that if Gen. MillOt is sent to
Tonquin he will go direct to the passes by
which the Chinese troops entered Ton
quin, in order to cut their base of opera
tions and prevent the enemy from recruit
ing.
LONDON, Nov. 2S.-A Paris correspond
ent persists in expressing the belief that
the difficulty between France and China
will lead to arbitration, which France,
after proving that she has the military
power to crush China, will accept out of
Difference to the desires of the European
powers and from wish not to disturb the
commerce of the world.
CHEBOURG, Nov. 2S.-The gunbOat
Farey has been ordered for service on tine
TOnquin coast.