FRANCE AND SIAM.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXX, Issue 10106, 3 August 1893, Page 5

FRANCE AND SIAM.

THE BLOCKADE ENDED. [Special to Perse Association.] LONDON, August 1. The Standard,'s Paris correspondent says that Lord Dufferin and M. Deville have signed a protocol settling the differences over the Siamese boundaries and arranging for a neutral zone. Lord Dufferin returns to England to-morrow. The Daily Neivs correspondent at Bangkok says Admiral Hermann has issued orders for a fresh blockade, and ordered H.M.S. Pallas and Swift to withdraw. It ia feared that the Preach intend to attack Bangkok and hold it aa a guarantee. Sir E. Grey, when questioned in the House of Commons, said that Government had not received any confirmation of the report. The blockade had been raised, but he declined to enter into details.

Paris papers confirm the statement in the Standard as to the settlement, but the Bangkok correspondent of the Times, telegraphs that it is feared that the French Admiral is acting on divergent orders. PARIS, August 1.

It is officially stated that Siam has agreed to give the guarantees demanded by Prance. Admiral Hermann is demanding the cession of the port of Chantabun, as a guarantee. Much alarm is said to be felt in Bangkok in consequence. It is officially announced that the blockade of Siam has been raised. The concessions made by Siam include half of Luang Prabang on the Mekong, but no islands in the Gulf of Siam. No Siamese forces are to be maintained at Battambang, nor are any warships to be kept on the great lake on the Mekong. BANGKOK, August 1.

Prance demands that the Siamese shall evacuate Chentabun and southeast Bangkok; also that Siam shall keep no warships on the Mekong. Seven additional French warships have arrived off Kosichang.