Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1893 — THE SIAMESE AND FRENCH WAR. [ARTICLE]

THE SIAMESE AND FRENCH WAR.

JtoUl* la .Which Twenty Siamese arc Killed and Fourteen Wounded. JA.\dls|latch from Bangko|r, capital Qi Siam, on the 14, states that twenty Siamese were killed and fourteen wounded during the exchange of fires between the forte aVthn toouth of the Melnam river and the French gnplioats Cometo And In&mstante, which forced the passage of the bar in the face of orders from-the Siamese government prohibiting their entry into the river.