The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-04-22
"A LITTLE PARISn
IN THE FAR EAST
Saigon, the Seat Of frances
Poor Empire in the East
ern indies.
COLONY NOT a SUCCESS
Millions of Treasure and Thousands OF
Lives Have Not Made France
Colonial Proposition in shs
East Pay.

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Nhlle the southeast monsoon p,o"S'
tSphoo!s are Matched IN this eEt lima
sea and sent whlr!ing across me ihiiiP-
pine lSiahGs ana up me china coast.
1T Is strange that french ambition
SHOULD ever nave settled or cehlerea
here. and Frances empire IN the east,
her india, Is the least desirable p,sfcei
OF land out here.
Forty-two years ago, In lSt@, the
French made their first stand in Cochin
China at the mouth of the Cain"odia
and Mekong rivers. Soon they lid u
treaty OF commerce, tnen n prolecto-
rate, and then an annexation "a An
nam; Tonking ollowed suit, Cumvodia
is now inciuucd, and great pieces of
siam were seized and annexed in 1893
and 1896.
Y When Germany took Kiaochau. RUS
STA took Port Arthur. and England
leased Weihaiwei in the north, France
chose Kuangchou BAY. lust cas-, g.. Hal
nan island, over when she vii, per-
manently plant the tricolor at the lirst
opportunity that offers.
But. with all her land grahbins. the
republic is not quite happy. and. Ike
her ally in Manchuria. no sooner has
she obtained a coveted province until
she learns of it's defects and useless
ness. In dreams of empire, it seemed
that possession of The mouth of the Me-
kong river would he possession of all
the trade Of Sunnan and south CHM
But when Cochin china hera,nr rT,ance
# was fonnd Ihot ths Nekin~ 80 n
succession of RAPIDS and trade ala not
come that way: not vet thronph An
nam. and when 'Tonnkinp was
nrhiaved tbe p.d ,.i,.n. n,.n,,al ~. ' ,s,
dclusion. a river or ranias for nt its
~lenrth-an1 trnda Zoos Ire nsnni old
way. over toward the West river ana
canton. straight to the commt rciai
ccnters which perfldious England l!uids.
The Awful French Campaions.
The French bov. fo,gb, n.,t,es
nonreh millions Of Fran ana ,nou'
sands or ITrench lives INTO this c,1niro
OF thr east and everv veor lie bal,tncn
i'm the budget is on the wrong side.
How terrible its co,nnaipns we've what
Frenchmen suffered in this hiGnous
country in 1883 and 1884. can II. re-
called by reading Pierre LOFTS "Lettres
, dun Exile"-some of the greatest
, work, the most vivid pictures that In
!, comparable genius has done. He makes
j. the sun and skies, the jungles and the
miasmatic plains and swamps of this
stearnlnS, sweltering peninsula all too
distinct and real, and IN one sketch of
the dying soldier on board the troop
ship" whose thin sides ylbrated like
a VIOLIN" VIC find, with that same apt
smile. the same scene which furnished
the most striking chapter in "Pe,Ieur
dlslande.' His genius has pictured
, his hideous, hot country for all time.
! and the ardent defenders OF the col
onial policy In France should not wish
G to have Pierre Lott touch upon the sub
: ject again.
v Despite the "Lettrea dun laA'le,'
:. Whlch toucn most upon Iongkllls% lhe
northern province. cherlshed Illusions
+, as 70 what Il fIehch colony Woui" be
: AS ongkong the lInSlish colony, was
' 70 Chlna ana the treaty ports SO: IN
IKE uegree' Saigon llle frehch cap,tai
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