FRANCE AND SIAM.
L [Special to Press Association.] PARIS. July 31. | Siam has been ordered to pay an ! indemnity and evacuate the ceded 1 territory within a month. Arrangements are being made to delimit the frontier. M. Delelasse, Colonial ; Secretary, desired to establish a proI tectorate, but M. Develle, Minister * for Foreign Affairs, after consulting ; Lord Dufferin, refused to take this 1 step. LONDON, July 31. Sir E, Grey, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, stated in the. House of Commons, that France and England were parleying with regard to the Upper Mekong provinces, and were already generally of accord as to the principles to be observed. He presumed that the occupation of Kohsichang was only temporary, and said that the stoppage of British vessels was an error. The Standard thinks that in the face of the Siamese acceptance of the French ultimatum, the blockade will be raised immediately. BANGKOK, July 31. M. Pavie, the French ConsulGeneral, who withdrew during the height of the dispute, has returned here. August 1. France demands that the Siamese stall evacuate Chentabun and southeast Bangkok; also that Siam shall keep no warships on the Mekong. Seven additional French warships have arrived off Kosichang.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXX, Issue 10105, 2 August 1893, Page 5
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