Under the above heading, Lo Matin of Paris, the 29th of June, ins a note from its London correspondent saying that he had asked Mr. Archibald Little, as an old resident in China, to give him some information on the subject of the rivalry between France and England in the Fat East. The result of his request was a letter from Mr. Little which the Matin publishes, and of which the following is-a rough translation London, 27th June, 1899, Sim,—You have been good enough te ask me to inform the readers of the in what, in my opinion, are the motives of British opposition to French colonial expansion in the Far East and elsewhere, Iam the more willing to do
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