THE SIAM TROUBLE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 175, 26 July 1893, Page 5

THE SIAM TROUBLE.

DESPATCH OF FRENCH REINFORCEMENTS.

SIAMESE PORTS BLOCKED.

IRRITATION OF THE BRITISH

RESIDENTS,

LORD DUFFERIN AND THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT.

Paris, July 25. The French Minister leaves Bangkok on Wednesday, and the blockade will be rigorously enforced next day.

The Government are sending reinforcements to enable the country* to be occupied, and also additional warships.

It is expected that the forts will be destroyed and the Palace shelled.

The Siamese Minister is leaving Paris.

Lord Duflerin had a friendly interview with M, Develle, who intimated that France would not allow a third party to interfere in her quarrel with Siam.

London, July 25.

The French subjects in BaDgkok have been placed under the protection of the Dutch Consul.

M. Pavie, the French Minister, asked for pilots to take the gunboats out of the river. They are suspected of lingering, under the pretence of waiting for the monsoon, in order to enable the Triomphant and the rest of the Asiatic squadron to arrive.

A second detachment of the Foreign Legion have been despatched to the East by the French Government.

The "Pall Mall Gazette" warns France that the English gunboats in the Menam River are able to blow hers out of the water.

The Siamese Government have 12,000 armed men in Bangkok.

It is believed that France intends to occupy Battambong and Augko.

The French press urges that. the King's palace should be shelled.

The British residents iv Bangkok are intensely irritated at tbe seeming apathy of the Imperial Government,

Berlin, July 25.

The "Tageblatt" says the more troubles France brings upon herself abroad, the more it is to the advantage of Germany.