The French Difficulty with Siam

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 22, 26 July 1893, Page 2

The French Difficulty with Siam

BRITISH RESIDENTS IRRITATED REINFORCEMENTS FROM FRANCE. (PKB PBKSS ASSOCIATION.) . London, July 10. The French subjects in Bankok hire been placed unher the protection or the Dutch Consul. M. Pavie, the FrUfaoh Minister, asked for a pilot to take the gunboats out of the river. THejr are suspected of lingering, undtf pretence of waiting for the monsoon, in order to en* able the Triumphant and the rest of the Asiatic squadron to arrive. A second detachment of the Foreign legion has been dexpatched to the East by the French Government. Tho Pall Moll Gazette warns France that the English gunboats in the Menam are able to blow hers out of tho water. The Siamese Government have 12,000 armed men in Bankok. It is believed that France intends to occupy Battambouß and Angkor. The French press urge that the King's Palace should be shelled. The British residents in Bankok are intensely irritated at tho seeming apathy of the Imperial Government. Paris, July 25. Lord Dufferin had a friendly interview with M. Develle, who intimated that France would not allow a third party to interfere in her quarrel with Siam. The French Minister leaves Bankok on Wednesday, and the blockade will be rigorously enforced the next day. The Government are sending reinforcements lo enable the country to be occupied, and additional warships. It is expected that the forts will be destroyed and the palace shelled. The Siamese Minister is leaving Paris. Berlin, July 25. The Tngeblatfc Bays the more troubles France brings upon herself abroad, the more it is to the advantage of Germany.