CONSPIRACY IN SIAM.

Mataura Ensign, 8 May 1912, Page 5

CONSPIRACY IN SIAM.

♦- THE KING'S LENIENCY. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. COPYRIGHT. PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received May 8, 10 a.m. BANGKOK, May 7. Ninety-one persons were found guilty of participating in the revolutionary ! conspiracy in March. j Three were sentenced to death and ; 20 to 20 years' imprisonment. The death sentences .were, however, com-) muted and the remainder only received j short terms which the King suspended, j In March Reuter's Bangkok agent] reported that a revolutionary conspiracy had been unearthed at Bangkok. Army and Navy officers were implicated, and many arrests were made. Siam, is a kingdom embracing part of thej Indo-Chinese and part of the Malay j Peninsula. The standing Army num- . •bers about 25,000, arid the Navy consists of one protected cruiser (30001. tons) and some 20 other vessels of 100 tons and more.