SIAM COMES IN.
GERMAN SHIPPING SEIZED.
BANGKOK- (Siam), July 23. . Siam has declared .war on Germany, and has seized 18,965 tons of Germaw
shipping
The Kingdom of Siam, or Muan& T'ai about 195,000 square miles* population, 1914, 8,150,000)/ ;is a buffer State between British fiqrma antl Frcncli Indo-China, and its .integrity is guaranteed by the British 1 ' and French. Governments by the 'Anglo-French Agreement- of April, 1904. Over two-thirds rof .Siamese, sea-borne trade, which-centres- at Bangkok, i« with the British Empire, and is largely in the hands of British firing or of Chinese trading from Singapore ' anil Hong Kong. German shipping,* which lias held the lead in tonnage for m»ny year's past, has ceased to visit Bangkok since August, 1914, and, as a consequence, there has been a largo increase in Norwegian and British shipping:'"' :
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVII, Issue 9053, 25 July 1917, Page 5
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135SIAM COMES IN. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVII, Issue 9053, 25 July 1917, Page 5
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