The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-08-01
FRENCHMEN JUBILANT.
Slams Surrender Regarded as a
Victory Over England.
aREAT UNEAgINEgg IN BANaKOE.

Not Been Advised by his Government
Of tho Existing Truoe-Tnhabitants Fear
an Attack on Slams Capital
PARIS, Aug. 1.-The ambig uous tone Of
Sundays cabinet council in accepting
Slams surrender has excited much com
ment Il IL generally understood that this
tonewas adopted for the purpose ofsoothing |
international suscsptibilities IL Is stated
on high authority that France intends TO
take decisive steps TO insure Slams carry |
ing out the terms Of the ultimatum. The |
blockade OF the Siamese coast will be CON
tinued, IL IL said until the French de- |
mands are satisfied. The French force |
now present in Siamese waters is believed |
to be sufficient TO make the blockade ef- |
feotive.
A prominent Paris merchant who owns
warehouses in Bangkok expressed the opin-
ion that decisive action is necessary to re
store the prestige which France enjoyed in
Siam after the adoption of the commercial
treaty Of 1850. French trade has recently
declined heavily, he said, in consequence
OF British and German enterprise and in
trigue to destroy French influence He
believed that the strong tone Of the ulti-
matum would tend greatly to restore the
influence Of France in Siam.
sue Of the controversy is a triumph for
French over English diplomacy It is be-
lieved in the diplomatic circle that there
will be no disagreement between France
and England in the delimitation Of the
frontier 1t Is also believed that China
will adopt her customary course of laissez
faire and not meddle with the matter.
! BANGKOK, Aug. j. The uneasiness
/ among the people here, far from lessening,
! Is increasing. Seven more French gun
/ boats have arrived at Koh-Si- Chang, maxi
/ ing total of thirteen now here. NeRotia-
tions are still going on, but the progress
made is not reported The intentions of
the French are awaited with fear and APP
prehension Rear Admiral Human, com
mRnding the French squadron, has issued
a second blockade notice, to take effect to-
day. He will order the British warships
Pallas and Swift, now lying OFF Bangkok,
to 20 outside the blockade limits. M.
Pavie, the French minister resident, has
gone TO Saigon, and Rear Admiral HUI
mann is under direct orders from Paris.
Unless the French government interposes
| quickly an attack on Bangkok seems GER
tain. The trading oommunityis is surprised
that Human is still allowed free hand.
LONDON, Aug. 1.-The Standard received
the following dispatch from its Paris cor
respondents "OwinR to the representation
made to NJ Develle, the foreign minister,
| by Lord Dutferin, the British ambassador
to France the question of neutral zone
between the French possessions in the
Siamese peninsula and British Burmah
and the Shau states has been settled salts
factorily. 1t has been agreed that the
French blockade Of the Siamese coast shall
be raised Immediately" No confirmation
! pf thp fopapOinc hag bpan receivpd
The Daily News says editorially:
1.-THE latest news from Bangkok is very
serious. Siam, having accepted the French
terms, frances persistenoy in coercive
measures will be equivalent to an unpro-
voked declaration of war, If not an open
demand for the cession of Siam. The
British foreign Office has never been in a
better or irmer hand than now. We have
no desire to attack France but while Lord
Rosebery made up his mind from the first
not to assist or encourage the Siamese, he
was equally determined, with the full ap-
provRl Of his colleagues, to protect the COM
mercial rights Of his own couDtrymen. He
distinctly warned France that British YES
sells could not be stopped under a blockade
avowedly pacific in character. 1t is quite
impossible for Great Britain to withdraw
the ships she sent TO Bangkok for protec-
tive purposes. We cannot be accused OF
: exciting public feeling against France.
But moderation is one thing, weakness
another"
The Paris correspondent Of the Centra,
News says that it has learned from good
authority that France demands,as security
from Siam that the terms of the ultima
tum will be carried out, the temporary
custody Of ChantRboon, a town near thu
/ Gulf of SLANT also that Siam shall estab
lish no military stations at certain named
places near the frontier of Cambodia o.
. within certain distance Of the Mekonl
river.
The POSTS Paris correspondent says
f "a lengthy interview yesterday between
NJ. Develle and Lord Dufferin resulted in
e friendly entente, permitting Siam to b.
maintained as buffer between the Brit
ish and the French possessions. France
u abandons the oeded parts to which Eng
land lays claim as having formed part o
> Burmah previous TO Theebaw's overthrow
e England agrees to the necessity of an ac
n eurate adjustment of the Siamese frontie
n relation to Tonquin and AMMAN. TIL
-, oSstente is 80 complete that Lord Dufferil
a will probably return to England tomoI
row,