Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-29
GAUL'S THUNDERINGGUNS
CHINA'S FORTS REDUCED TO
SILENCE AND RUINS.

COurbet GIOrifYing in his Work of Ami
hilation and Destruction-The French
Press Still Irritated at the Structures
of the English Quill Drivers-Mobs
Rising at Canton.
LONDON, Aug. 2S.-A dispatch from
Shanghai of yesterday says: ''The Mingan
forts below Foo Chow were finally si-
lenced Tuesday evening. To-day a heavy
cannonade has been kept up between the
French fleet and the Kin Pal forts. which
are situated at the northern mouth of Min
river"
A dispatch which left Foo Chow at .
O'Clock to-day says: "The Kin Pal forts
have been destroyed"
COURBET'S REPORT.
Following is Admiral Courbets report
OF his operations on the Min river up to
last evening:
MIN RIVER, s P. NJ, WEDNESDAY, Aug. %.
Our, operations against the Mingan forts
nave been successfully concluded. All the
Chinese batteries have been DESTROYED We
have shattered all their cannon with gun cot
day.
+ A dispatch which left Shanghai at $40
O'Clock to-day says: 'sAdmiral Courbet
began to lombard Kin Pal yesterday. A
heavy cannonade still continues"
The French Consul and merchants who
were expelled from Canton last Saturday
by order of the VicerOy have arrived at
Hong Kong. A mob at Canton invaded
the Catholic Cathedral Wednesday. The
building was cleared by the efforts of the
foreign COnsuls.
FERRY'S COMMENTS.
The Paris correspondent of the London
Tunes says that Prime Minister Ferry in
private conversation complained with
much yehemence Of the structures of the
Tunes regarding Admiral Courbet's con-
duct at Foo Chow. He said:
The French press showed no such spirit
when the English bOmbarded Alexandria
The English press by egging China on is siding
against Europe. The confidence il gives the
Chlnese may next be turned against England.
CoInherclal hatlons are naturally uneasy at
our action, but once resolved on redress we
must deal blows which will tell.
M. Ferry disavowed policy of colonial
conquest. He further said
MY whole duty is to finish enterprises origi-
nally ill-conceived and ill-managed We
want peaceful occupation of Tonouin. and
we want to enforce on China the respect she
owes us. European interests need not be
lied world.
A dispatch from the Foo Chow CORE
spondent OF the Times says: 81 have lust
returned from Kin Pal. All the defenses
along the Min river are gone. The Chi
nese troops bolted. The French fleet can
lombard, but the occupation of the main
land is doubtful"
Admiral Courbet has been ordered to
occupy Hainan after taking Ke Lung.
The British man. 1f-War Canada has re-
celVed orders to be ready to sail for China
sept. y. The Dreadnaught has been COM
mlssloned for the Mediterranean. Seve-
fal otner lr0n-clads can proceed on short
notice to Egypt or China.
twenty-five hundred troops have been
placed in readiness to proceed to Tonuuin,
II required. Admiral Pegrin, Minister of
Marine, has telegraphed Admiral Courbet
that war supplies for the French forces
can be obtained at the Arsenal at Saigon.
In French Cochin China the operations
against Lang Sou have been suspended on
account OF the heat. Gen. Negrier will
retire to Bach Mini.
1t is stated that the Delta is in no dam
ger. Gen. Millot telegraphs from Ton
gum that he lost four men while repuls-
ing pirates and Black Flags. who pillaped
the villages along the Red river, and mas
sacred the inhabitants. The French gar
risons at Sontay and Hong Hoa, with the
aid OF the gunbOats, Gen. MillOt states,
succeeded in driving them into the noun
tains.
ChOng 81 Tung, Tartar General in the
province OF Kiang Su, has been appointed
High Commander for North and South.
III Hung Chang retains the Governorship
of Pee Chi Lii only. Tso Tsung Tang
takes command of the troops in the South.
Paris papers doubt the report that the
French have landed at Ke Lung and
captured the forts. In reference to the
report, La Liberte says: ga landing
force OF 1900 men is not available for the
capture of Ke Lung.
Inc committee appointed by the mer-
chants at London engaged in the trade
with the East have obtained a legal opin-
ION on the right Of France to prevent YES
sells carrying munitions of war to enter
treaty ports of China. Their counsel
holds that until war has been formally
declared France has no right to prevent
such entrances.
Baron de Courcel, the French Ambass.
adOr, has returned to Berlin. 1t is semi
officially stated that De CourcePs visit to
Prince Bismarck was for the purpose of
informing him that permanent occupa-
tlon of Foo Chow and FOrmOsa is not con-
templated by the French Government,
and that Europeans there have nothing to
fear.
Admiral Courbet's official report up to
this evening is as follows:
MIN RIVER, 5:33 P. NJ, Aug. 2S.-The princi-
pal batteries on Kin Pal Channel have been
destroyed and we hope to destroy all the other
forts this evening. The line of tOrpedoes
barring the entrance to the river is being
hshed up and explosives are being secured.
The gunboats are unable to leave the river by
another channel. A shy has been dispatched
to guard the telegraphic cable.
Prime Minister Ferry has no intention
at present of summOning Parliament to
meet. He says that owing to Ch1na's
treachery it has been impossible to treat
her like civil nation.
A Foo Chow dispatch. dated at O'Clock
tonight, says: ''Since the French de-
scended the river, the Chinese have looted
and set fire to the foreigners quarters in
the city. Much dissatisfaction is ex-
pressed at the action of the French in
bombarding the city without landing
troops for the protection of foreigners. 1t
is reported that Germany has protested
against this action. The Chinese COM
plain that English pilots guided the
French fleets during the engagement, thus
committing a breach of the neutrality
laws"
Germany has prohibited the departure
of two recently launched Chinese men-of-
war at Kiel. Their commanders and
crews will return to China.
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