GLIMPSES OF ASIA 



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Photograph from M. Branger and Sons 



DISCUSSING THE) NEWS OF THE DAY IN FRENCH INDO-CHINA 



Until given the mandate over Syria, the chief interest of France in Asia lay in Indo- 

 China, which includes the protectorates of Annam, Tonking, and Cambodia, the colony of 

 Cochin-China, and part of the Laos country. French Indo-China has an area more than 

 a third larger than France in Europe. 



