The herald., 1893-08-02
THE S|AMESE SETTLEMENT
Devel1e and Dufferin Fixing
Things Up.
France Bears Down Hard on
Little Siam.
England Seems to Stand in on the
Sp0liatiOn Scheme.
Siam Grants All the Supplementary
Guarantees Demanded OF Her-The
Blockade OF Her Porte
Still On.
By the Associated press.

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By the Associated Press
PARIS, Aug. LA council of the min
istry was held today. Develle an
nounced that Prince Vadhana had Gig
nified Slams willingness to concede the
supplementary guarantees demanded by
France. Develle also stated that his in
terview yesterday with Lord Dufferin
was based on the negotiations of 1859,
which recognized the principle Of buff
fer state between the French and Brit
ish possessions in the east. The ques-
tion OF neutral zone was reserved for
future consideration.
THE SUPPLEMENTARY GUARANTEES.
Supplementary guarantees by France
from Siam, which include the tempo
rary custody of the river and port Of
Chantiboon, and that Siam shall not re-
establish military stations in certain
named places near the Cambodian from
tier or within q certain distance OF the
Mekong river, were contained in a note
issued by Develle yesterday. and made
public today. The pretext for imposing
these heavier conditions is alleged to be
the delay of Siam in accepting the orig
inal ultimatum.
SIAM COMEDIES EVERYTHING.
The Siamese minister informed the
government today that Siam was pre-
pared to give the supplementary guar
antee required by France for the fulfill
ment OF the terms of the qltimatum,
pending final settlement Of the ques-
tions involved. The blockade is still in
force.
uNBAsNEss IN RANaKoK.
Advices received here from Bangkok
show that no understanding has been
reached in regard to the delimitation of
the territoYity claimed by the French,
or at least that no knowledge to sthss
effect has reached the 6iamess capital.
Neither Is 1t known at Bangkok that the
blockadeis 10 be at once raised. On the
contrary. dispatches from Bangkok fWly
support the leport current last nignt'
Sest0m9c66. pRR peRRs trou5Is u islt 81 III Il Bang
kok, and that the anxiety is Increasing
daily. 1t is feared an attack will short
ly be made upon Bangkok unless the
French governments sends orders to
Vice-Admiral Human not to attack the
city.
NEUTRAL ZONE ESTABLISHED.
LONDON, Aug. LIN the house of lords
today Lord Rosebery read the text of
the first and supplementary ultimatum
sent by France to Siam and accepted by
the latter country. He added: "We
have signed an agreement in Paris es-
tablishing neutral zone in Indo-
China.
BENDING BEFoRE THE BLAST.
A dispatch from Paris says: There
are signs that the government is bend.
ing before the blast blowing from the
boalevards. It is now explained that
France had not really accepted Slams
submission to the fall demands of the
French ultimatum. The submission
was only put on record when received
from Prince Vadhna, the Siamese min
ieter to France, and nothing final will
be done until M. Ssydoc de Vellers,
French plenipotentiaYy, now on the way
to Siam, has accomplished his mission
to Bangkok. His instructions are to ask
Slams submission to guarantees against
the renewal of Siamese attacks upon
the French, and to ask for special ad-
vantages on behalf of the French in
which the financial world is understood
to be interested.
DUFFERIN AND DEvELLE.
A dispatch from Paris to the Associ-
ated Press states that Lord Dufferin,
British ambassador to France, and De.
velle, the French foreign minister, at
their interview yesterday, merely am
plifed the papers already prepared for
signatures. Inquiry at the foreign Office
elicits the information that the discus
sion was confined to rough draft of the
convention for the delimitation of the
frontiers Of the territory to be handed
over to the French by the Siamese, and
The formation of buffer country be-
tween French and British possessions.
GUNBoATs AT BANGKOK.
BANGKOK, Aug. 1--English and Ger
nan gunboats entered the Menan river
;oday and came to anchor off the CITY.
Negotiations have become secret. All
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