People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1893 — SIAM ALARMED. [ARTICLE]

SIAM ALARMED.

France Make* a Move Which Create* Vueselnesa In Bangkok—Her Fleet Ha* Been Increased—Notice of a Second Blockade Issued and British Warship* Ordered to Oet Outside of It* Limits. Bangkok, Aug. I.—The uneasiness among the people far from lessening, is increasing. Seven more French gunboats have arrived at Koh-Si-Chang, making a total of thirteen now here. Negotiations are still going on. but the progress made is not reported. The intentions of the French are awaited with fear and apprehension. Rear Admiral Humann, commanding the French squadron, has issued a second blockade notice, to take effect ■ three days from Saturday. He will order the British war ships Pallas and Swift, now lying off Bangkok, to go outside the blockade limits. M. Pavie, the French minister resident, has gone to Saigon and RearAdmiral Humann is under direct orders from Paris. Unless the French government interposes quickly an attack on Bangkok seems certain. The trading community is surprised that Humann Is still allowed a free hand. Paris, Aug. I.—The ambiguous tone of the cabinet in accepting Siam’s surrender has excited much comment It is generally understood that this tone was adopted for the purpose of soothing international susceptibilities. It is stated on high authority that France intends to take decisive steps to insure the Siamese carrying out’ the terms of the ultimatum. The blockade of the Siamese port will be continued, it is said, until France’s demands are satisfied. The French force now in Siamese waters is believed to be sufficient to make the blockade effective. The general opinion here is that the issue of the controversy is a triumph for France over English diplomacy. It is believed in diplomatic circles there will be no disagreement between France and England in the delimination of the frontier. It is also believed that China will not meddle with the matter. London, Aug. I.—lt was learned at the admiralty office that the English government is much puzzled over the latest turn of affairs in Siam, by which France, after having apparently arranged everything with Great Britain on terms most satisfactory to Britain, has declared a new blockade to begin Wednesday. The foreign office’s advices from Bangkok agree with the newspaper telegrams announcing that Admiral Humann has said the new blockade is in obedience to instructions direct from Paris to him. Yet the latest information the foreign office has had through Lord Dufferin is that France has accepted Siam’s terms, and proposed to arrange the details "upon a peace basis. While the foreign office would say nothing officially it was plainly much perplexed over the conduct of France, and fears that this new move is a repetition of that singular conduct of last week, when a blockade was begun without notifying England. Paris, Aug. I.—Lord Dufferin has obtained from the French government assurance that the question of the Shan states will be settled in the manner desired by England. This means that they will be restored to Siam, which had no right to cede them. The embassy is now engaged in active telegraphic communication with the foreign office at London. The Siamese question has for the present no gravity. Siam’s submission is accepted, though ungraciously, and the blockade will not take place. The negotiations with England will probably last some time. A Paris correspondent says it has been learned from good authority that France demands as security from Siam that the terms of the ultimatum shall be carried out at Chantaboon, a town near the Gulf of Siam; also that Siam shall establish no military station at certain named places near the frontier of Cambodia or within a certain distance of the Mekong river.