The whole countryside is agog with excitement over the " French invasion."
The twelve Annamese soldiers escorting the "'scientific" travellers from Tongkin; have been magnified into s large army an Such, indeed, has been the condition of the Sepere have been in a mild state of funk. officials also with whom the supreme question has been "why are they coming?" to which we in our ignorance have found no other er than the convenient evasion "Look see."
At present the expedition is at Tachienlu and is expected to retura to this point at no distant date.
'MORE TROUBLES, News from " the inside," iz. the Szechuan marches of Tibet, tell of more trouble for the already harassed officials of Szechuan.
Some five days' journey to the south-west of Litang, on the borders of Yunnan, is a district called Hsiangehen, A couple of years ago the people incited and led by the local Lamas attacked a Chinese mandarin who had been sent down on certain business, and Killed him and his sop, traces of whom have not yet been found. This year the Chinese organised an expedition of revenge and sent it—composed of "some tens" of Szechuan braves—under the command of an experienced officer, who also had "many thousand" Tibetan soldiers as allies. The advance to Hsiangehén is through forest and this the enemy had strongly occupied that the. Chinese and their allies lost heavily before reaching what they doemed to be the real scene of hostilities.
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