Nagasaki, Sept. 21.
Arciving here on a' visit from Chinese ports aboard his flagship, the jeruiser Primauguet, Rear-Admiral R. D'Esteva, Commander-in-Chief of the French Asiatic Fleet, to-day denied rumours that units under his comand would ce-operate with the British China Squadron in a poss-Hole emergency arising out of the Ttalo-Abyssinian tension.
The French Asiatic fleet will remain in the Far East regardless of the recent British naval movements, Declaring that while hostilities between Ttaly and "possibly are inevitable," he added that France hoped that the world would not be involved in another war—Rengo.
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