FRANCE'S EASTERN WAR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4489, 29 July 1893, Page 2

FRANCE'S EASTERN WAR.

I/lore MM Vessels Sent to the Menam, Calcutta, July 26. . Tho blockade of Bangkok begins on 3 Saturday. , The King of. Siam has requested the assistance of China.. ' • • Paris, July 27, The Foreign Minister of Siam informed M.-Pavie, the French Minister j at Bangkok that lie wes astonished j that the reply to the uLimatum was ! regarded as a refusal, i The French journals insist that it 1 is needless to declare war as the oper- [ ations are merely an act of police duty. The Chinese Embassy has informed M, Develle that Siam has no territory east of the Mekong so far norih as the 23rd degree, ~vlf war iB declared against Siam it i is expected that the Black Flags will i attack Tonquin. France will occupy tho islands in ; the Gulf of Siam, and lias already seized Eangamlin as a base of tions, , The blockade will probably extend , to the whole northern part of the ; Gulf. . The French' oruiserEclaireur will reinforce Admiral Humann'B squadron, London, July 27. Admiral Fremantle has sentH,M,S Plover to join the warships Pallas, : Linnet, and Swift in the Menam. St. Petersburg, July 27. 1 The Bussian press exhorts Franoe to complete her work, and destroy Great Britain's prestige in Asia. ' London, July 27. Tlie Paris correspondent of The Times says the Frenoh Government, following the precedent in Tonquin, does not iutend to formally declare war. Berlin, July 27,. 1 Tho German press ■ declares that England is now-likely to regret hold" ing aloof,from the.-Triple Allianoa. [ - , Conswkiino'plb, July. 26.' ' '4 ; i Qoveroirjerit; denies