HC Deb 23 August 1883 vol 283 c1755
MR. ASHMEAD-BARTLETT

asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether the French have taken the capital of Ann am; and, whether he can give any other information as to the progress of the French invasion in Annam?

LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICE

Sir, the Foreign Office have no intelligence of the capture of the capital of Annam by the French; and, as the House has already been informed, they have no special information as to the progress of the French invasion.