The record-union., 1893-07-24
Special to the REcoRD-UN1oN.

!
PARIS, July 23.-At midnight it was
stated that Slams reply to Frances ulti-
matum is considered unsatisfactory, and
the French Minister resident will proba-
bly, leave Bangkok on Wednesday to go
aboard a cruiser. The refusal of the
| French Minister of Foreign Affairs to
give Siam an extension of time is as
/ cribed to his desire TO force Slams hand
and to prevent her negotiating for British
| support.
! The Siamese Government proposes.
without, however, making it condition,
for the appointment of mixed commIs-
sion, to inquire into the question of dam
ages and amount of money indemnities
mentioned in the French demand, that it
will Immediately deposit 100000 francs
to cover the amount Of Naturalization
designated above. The King, however,
has reason TO believe that after proper in
| quiry this sum will be found to exceed
the amount claimable Of justice by the
| French Government.
| The reply closes by saying that the
| Slamese Government is confident that in
acceding to the demands of the French
! Government in this matter it has given
| proof of Its sincere desire to maintain
| good relations and settle in the most COM
plete manner all pending questions
Apparently the French have persuaded
themselves that England cannot object to
the ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of Siam because she
recently grabbed Upper Burmah. There
is a melancholy lack of information
about the present case and an almost
startling ignorance Of the English char
acter.
John Bull historically reserves his
most vehement indignation for the at
tempts of other people to initiate his own
! high aggressions, and at the sug-
gestion of anybody elses right to appro-
pirate aboriginal territory anywhere on
the globe flares up.
| In the present instance, however. he is
more than usually justified in rolling up
his sleeves. His trade with Siam amounts
to $I3,000,0OO q year against the French
$4,000. He has 1890 Britons engaged in
this commerce against go Frenchmen.
| By ali the rules of the international
game this warrants his interference, and
| Lord Duf1erin has stated for him how
and where he proposed TO interfere.
The English people are still extremely
| 10th to believe that there is d possibility
of their being forced into war with
! France.
| With the exception of the Crimea.
which was really so far away that 1t
seemed like war in India or Egypt. Brit
ish troops have not measured their
strength with Europeans since Gladstone
was learning his alphabet.
They have the greatest difficulty now in
| imagining themselves taking arms
against any white people, the French
most of all.
Now, If Paris really insists on hostili-
| ties, the best informed belief here Is that
in the conceivable event of a rupture be-
tween England and France Russian ac-
| tivity would, for the time at least, be con-
fined to moving troops eastward to the
| Indian frontier and endeavoring by
| agents to foment Indian mutinies and
dissatisfaction, with the view of prevent
ing England's use abroad of the bulk of
/ her splendid Indian army.
| China, on the other side, would see in
| the disturbance a chance to recover Ton
| quin, and the spirit and her actions keeps
this always in view.
SLAMS REPLY.
! PARIS, July 23.-The Siamese reply is
substantially as follows:
Ills majesty regrets that no precise
| definition was ever given him of what
his majesty is to understand by the ex-
| preston of rights of the empire of Anam
and kingdom Of Gambodia on the left
| bank of the Mekong River and islands of
the Mekong River. His majesty has
ever been ready to abandon all territories
over which the existence of these rights
should have been proved, and five
months ago proposed to submit all con-
tested points to international arbitration.
Now he consents to delimitation of
the frontiers between Siam and Cam
| bodia. All of the territory on the left
bank of the Mekong River south of
| limo drawn from the most northerly of
the Siamese military posts recently occu-
/ pied by Erance-Anamese troops. TO
another point situated in the same lati-
j tude-that is of the 18th degree north
/ latitude-win be regarded as Anamite
and Cambodian territory, the river below
the point indicated becoming the line of
D
as far as point where the river enters
Cambodian territory, and the use Of the
island in the river being common TO
three coterminous States.
! N''1he King deplores the losses expert
enced on both sides in connection with
| the-Keng KEN and Khainmon incidents.
as well as the regretable collision at the
| mouth of the Menam River. The Bang
4 bien will be liberated, and other satisiac-
ton will, If necessary, be given, as far as
compatible with ordinary justice and tie
/ independence o the Siamese Government.
which the French Government declared
its desire to respect. The four persons
found guilty of acts Of personal agrees
sion against French subjects will be pun
/ ished, and wherever necessary colnpensa-
ton in money be made to relatives of the
victims.
The claims made by French subjects
on account of indignities alleged to have
/ been suffered by them owing to the ac-
tons Of Siamese officials are contested bv
the latter. The King, however, agrees
not to insist on the question of principle,
and TO hand over 20 the French Govern
ment 100000 francs for the benefit Of
those who suffered above"
! Deyelle had long conference with