People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1893 — HAS LEFT BANGKOK. [ARTICLE]

HAS LEFT BANGKOK.

I The French Minister Depart* from tha I Siameee Capttal-The Ministry, HowI ever, Hesltatas to Dtelare War—Siam's Plucky Reply Was Unexpected. Paris, July 26.—The ministry is now in a quandary. It was not contemplated that Siam would resist, and the cabinet hesitates to incur the odium of bloodshed. According to international laws neutral powers are net bound to recognize a blockade except between belligerents, and the French constitution provides that ; war cannot be declared without the consent of parliament The situation is one of the greatest difficulty and only success can justify the policy which M. Develle has adopted. Should he fail the country, already smarting under the long tale of colonial failures, will visit him and his cabinet with the heaviest penalties. President Carnot’s absence from the capital at such a critical moment has revived the rumors of his serious illness. It transpires that the reports current that the French government had notified the various powers of her intention to blockade the ports of Siam were premature. No such notification has been officially ad dressed to the powers. Lord Dufferin, the British ambassador, and M. Develle, minister of foreign affairs, will hold another conference Wednesday, presumably on the question of territorial demands made by France on Siam. Bangkok, July 26. —M. Pavie, French minister resident, started down the river Tuesday afternoon on the warship Ineonstante, accompanied by the warships Lutin and Comete. All is quiet in this city. London, July 26.—The Daily Chronicle makes the rather utopian suggestion that the government should convene a conference of the great European powers and America and endeavor to arrive at a final solution of the international difficulties in Siam, Newfoundland, etc. Txen-Tsin, July 26.—The Chinese government has received the news of France’s territorial demands upon Siam with amazement and indignation. That France should lay claim to country up to the twenty-third parallel is regarded as an intrusion upon the j rights of China, for at Pekin the con- , tention is that both banks of the Mekong to a point well south of the twenty-third parallel are Chinese possessions. The mandarin party, which is bitterly anti-French, is trying to force the government to interfere.