This stirred up the Chinese, who also claimed annam, and who caused the invasion of Tonkin by guerillas supported by their own troops.
"A History of the Third French Republic"
C. H. C. Wright
General Gouraud talked in his deep, melodious voice of other wars in which he had fought, in annam and Morocco and Madagascar, and the white-mustached old general of artillery at my left illustrated, with the aid of the knives and forks, a new system of artillery fire, which, he assured me very earnestly, would make pudding of the German trenches.
"Italy at War and the Allies in the West"
E. Alexander Powell
France demands that her possessions in Tonking, Cochin China, Cambodia, annam, and Laos shall be guaranteed; that Russia be instrumental in assisting her to acquire Egypt, and that it pledge itself to support the French policy in Tunis and the rest of Africa."
"The Coming Conquest of England"
August Niemann