The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-03-31
WARS! WARS! WARS!
An Exciting State of Affairs
ALI Around.
ENGLAND AND RUsSIA's FUSS.
France and China Fracas - Osman
Digna Sends n Flag of Truce
=. Egyptian Affairs.
France and China.

SdlICu u N1CIOT1 over Iuc rIeIlCn dI
Langson on Friday. They carried the
key of the position and the entrench-
ment The French troops retreated be-
yond Dong Dang. They are falling
back on the Long .Koi. The French
loss IN men and guns is unknown. The
Chinese are estimated at $4,000 strong
They menace the French lines of COM
munication wirh the south. 1t is re-
ported in Paris that General Briere De
L'Isle asks 20 900 reinforcements.
The French reserves have increased
| the political excitement in Paris. 1t is
expected the ministry will be defeated
in the next fonquin debate and then re-
sign. Radical and monarchist organs
predict the early fall OF Premier Ferry
The following dispatch was received
from General Briere d'Lisle, dated
Hanoi, March %: 81 regret to an
nounce that General Negriere has been
severely wounded and obliged to eva
cuate Lang Son. The Chinese in three
large columns made an impetuous
attack upon our positions before Kilua.
Colonel tHerbinger, in the face of
superior number of the enemy and
exhausted Of ammunition, was obliged
to retreat to Dong Dang and Thannoi.
KEEP roads. It the enemy still increases
I shall retire to Long Koi. Whatever
happens hope to be able to defend the
whole of the Delta.
PLEASE send reinforcements as
quickly as possible
The Cabinet met at this morning.
The . Journal ,DebatS says: France
will make the necessary efforts in behalf
of her sons in Tonquin. Reinforce
ments shall be sent, not tomorrow but
to-day. Tomorrow, however, we shall
see with whom the responsibility rests. !"
Steele urges a French expedition to
Pekin and says Premier Ferry will make
a statement in the Chamber of Deputies
tomorrow.
PARIS, March SO.-General de Lisle
in dispatch says: General Negriere
is at Dong Dang. 1t is expected he will
recover. Colonel Herbingeerr, with his
column is at Thannoi. The French
evacuated their positions without mo-
lestation from the Chinese. kilograms
maintain absolute silence regarding the
French losses. The cabinet decided to
dispatch reinforcements to Tonqain inn
rraediatefy and ark in the ShrsrsiSsey OF
) Deputies to-day a credit of $40. 900, 900
half for the ministry of war and halt fol-
the ministry of marine. NJ. Clemenceau
called meeting of members of the ex-
IRENE left for to-day to decide on.their
course. Several deputies who support
Ferry are in favor of plenary meeting
of all Republican groups.
LONDON, March 30-A Paris dispatch
) to the Exchange Telegraph Company
states that war with China will be
sand achievements will be forwarded
and the army ordered to march on
Pekin. 1t is expected that Admiral
! Courbet will lombard Canton. Figaro
states that the French killed and
wounded in the fight at Langson were
1000. The same paper favors impeaching
. the ministry.
PARIS, March 3O.-The excitement
|, over the French defeat at Langson is in.
,, tense. The feeling against the govern
ment is so strong that an outbreak is
feared 1t is reported that France has
officially declared war. This, with fears
of serious riot and the downfall of the
ministry, caused panic on the Bourse
All Radical newspapers request the I'M
t parchment of the Ministers. Rochefort
a demands the head of the French
Premier, Ferry, for many blunders in
; Tonquin.
LONDON, March 3O.-A dispatch from
. Paris saws President Grevy presided a.
= a council of ministers to-day. He in,
: sisted on immediate action being taker
: for the prompt and vigorous prosecu
: ton of the war in China. The Cabinet
decided to mobilize two divisions o.
= troops, to be commanded by four briga
I der generals, for immediate service in
!. Tonquin; also to send 10000 men to re
= inforce Admiral Courbet.
LONDON, March 30.-A special from
, Paris gives the following account of the
opening scenes at the meeting of the
Chamber of Deputies to-day: "Lons
n before the hour for the converting of the
i Chamber, the streets in the vicinity
n were packed. by crowds of excited men
: 1t soon became evident that trouble wa.
{ brewing for the government. A strong
I force of military was on hand to proven
and preserve order in the Chamber
n Notwithstanding this precaution, thu
y galleries were crowded with people who
II plainly showed irritation over the
, French defeat at Langson, by keeping
up noisy discussion and hurting de
mandatory epithets at various member
of the Cabinet and their supporters a!
they entered the Chamber. When julie!
e Ferry, premier, arose to announce thu
it decision of the Cabinet council thi:
q morning, he was loudly Kissed by thu
galleries. He barely finished the decla
2, ration when a number of deputies of tn,
n right sprang to their feet, yelling, "DowI
L with the wretch, while above the dir
e could be heard the voice of ClemenceaI
as he fairly screamed, Traitors"
was some time before order was restored
and had it not been for the presence o
troops there is hardly doubt but tina
e violence would have been done. During
III the Scnna in m Nh tho or0W(
e outside became bowling mob ant
made several attempts to pass tn
a guards in order to get inside the build
ing, but were kept back by the deter
mined attitude of the military.
AT the opening of the session in the
Chamber of Deputies this Afternoon
o Minister Ferry presented government
Q request for credit of $4,000, 900 OF
account of the military operations IL
It China; Ferry at once moved for thu
r appointment OF committee to EXAMINE