Hong Kong, Monday. — The riots at the French settlement at Shanghai are subsiding. Twenty-two Chinese have been killed and fifty wounded. The French sailors are maintaining a guard.
It is believed that the French intend to extend the boundaries of the settlement to Sica-Wei. The Chinese are incensed against the Taotai. Business is suspended.
— The New York Herald, European Edition, July 19, 1898.
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