Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-07-25
ID EDITION.
ANXIOUS TO PLEASE.
Siam Wants to Know What France
Wants.
SURPRISED At her DISPLEASURE
Excited Comments of the Siamese
Commissioner at Chicago.
A PREM AZURE REPORT.
URPRISEl At her DIOPLEASURE
A PREM AZURE REPORT.

LONDON July 25.-The correspondent
at Bangkok of the Times telegraphs that
the Simese foreign minister, In replying
to the statement of NJ. Pavie. the French
minister. that Slams answer to the French
ultimatum was not satisfactory. expresses
surprise and regret that the abdicatiOn by
Siam OF her sovereignty. not only over
that part Of her territory in dispute on the
left bank of the Mekong river. but also
over Stuntreng and Khone, which are in
disputably Siamese by treaty, is not con-
sidered fully in accordance with the re-
Quirements of France.
The Siamese minister therefore urges
more strenuously than ever that France
define exactly what she considers her
rights in AMMAN and Cambodia. and on
the left bank of the Mekong river.
The correspondent adds that the Siamese
government has offered to provide pilots
to take the French gunboats Lutin and
COmete down the Menam river from Bang
kok. These pilots were asked for by NJ
Pavie yesterday when he notified the slam
csc government that he would leave the
city on Wednesday TO go on board the war
ship lnconstante. 1t appears certain now
that Nj. Pavie will hasten his departure
1t Is said the French minister on one OF
the gun boats and accompanied by the
other, will go down the river this evening.
The Westminster Gazette, a. liberal or
Franco-Siamese dispute under the caption
"Jingo Pharisees." The paper admits that
the situation arising from the dispute Is
serious but il deprecateS the buster that
marks the articles on the subject in Sec
ton of the tory press. 1t urges that conf
dence be placed in Lord Rosebery, the Brit
ish foreign minister. whose hands, it says,
may be best strengthened by a certain
of reserve. Great Britain, 1t adds,
bly, have case as good in French eyes as
any British case Is in British eyes.
Powers Not Yet Notified.
PARIS, July 25.-It transpires that re-
ports current yesterday that the French
government had notified the various pow
ers of her intention to blockade the port of
ton has been officially addressed to the
powers.
Lord Dufferin. the British ambassador,
and NJ. Develle, minister of foreign affairs,
will hold another conference tomorrow,
on the ques ton OF the terri
Lorial demands made by France on Siam.
Ready to Eat Up the French.
CHICAGO, July 25.-'Let the French put
so much as a foot on Siamese land and we
will eat them up"
The speaker, Phra Suriya Nutvate. chief
to the worlds fair from siam,
clenched his copper and knoIty INST. Al
over the mild-mannered little man and only
the absence of a Frenchman prevented
Phra Nutvate from putting his threat into
THE .ungrateful French" Phra Nutvate
exclaimed. his black eyes swapping. Three
Years ago." he explained, MS majesty tne
King OF Siam gave the French permission
to explore the upper Mekong- Now, then.
they have taken advantage of him by Sc
Letting desirable points along that river
and laying claim to them. This is the
cause of the whole trouble. France wants
the river Mekong. She wants IL 20 tap the
commerce of Tong King and injure the
English trade which comes down the river
Menam entirely at present. II France can
break UP England'S trade in Siam anu at
the same time divert the French peoples
ewes from the odOrous scandals az home
she will have accomplished her object.
"Can France do it,?
mo sir We have standing army
armed with Manchester magazine rifles
ON the land we are equal to the Ere1ch.
And then the fiery little man repeated
the opening sentence of this dispatch with
terrible emphasis.