The French in Siam.
Paris July 17. The Government have instructed the French Minister at Bangkok to protest gainst the tiring on the gunboats by forts. News has boen received that the French forces captured two of the Siamese forts on the upper Mekong, and thafc hostilities are now suspended. The French press condemn the Government for giving England any promises with regard to Siani. The Siamese consented to withdraw their troops, and this formed the basis for the suspension of hostilities. The Paris newspapers comment furiously on the report that a French vessel had been sunk by the Siamese, and the statement that England is supporting ->iam is also causing a great amount of angry criticism.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6727, 18 July 1893, Page 2
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117The French in Siam. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6727, 18 July 1893, Page 2
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