The Archive · 1901

The Victory of the Official

Prefect Lung was, however, one too many' for them, and they were peaceably defeated in the long struggle, This is a significant fact, asit is the people of this neighbourhood who are so opposed to the French railway, and whose opposition the Viceroy professed to he unable to overcome. Let them try in earnest and the railway will get a footing as easily as the likin. Formerly the Government was not averse to a popular uprising against the foreigners; now it has Jearnt more wisdom.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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