The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-08-02
FRANCO 2AMESB AFFAIR.
Siam Gives the Supplemental
Guarantee Demanded.
ANXIETY IN BANGKOK.
The Blockade Has Not Yet Been
Removed.
A Special Ambassador Is Now En- Route
to the Siamese Capital with Instruc-
tions in Which the Financial
World Is Interested.

PARIS, Aug. 1.-Advices received here
from Bangkok show that no understand
ing has been reached in regard to the
limitation of territory claimed by France.
or at least, that no knowledge to that
effect has reached the Siamese capital.
Neither is 1t known at Bangkok that the
blockade is to be at once raised. On the
contrary, dispatches from Bangkok fully
support the reports current last night
thaC much uneasineSS as to the final out
come OF the trouble was felt in BANGKOK
ana That the anxiety was increasing daily.
IL is feared that an attack would shortly
De made upon Bangkok, unless the
french government sends orders tn Vice-
ADMIRAL Human not to attack the city.
There are signs that the government ia
pending before the blast blowing from the
oouievards, 1t now being explained that
france has not really accepted Slams sub
mission to its full demands of the French
ultlmatum. The submission was onIv
put on record when received from Prince
Vadhana, the Slamese minister TO France
and nothing final will be done until M,
Leydere de Villers, French plenipoten-
tlary now on his way to Siam, has ac-
compllshed his mission to Bangkok. His
instructions are as to Slams submission
70 Inc guarantees against a renewal OF
Slamese attacks upon the French. and to
ask Tor special advantages on behalf of
the French, in which the financial world
is understood to be interested.
Late Bangkok advices say the negotia-
lions have become secret, and absolutely
nothing can be learned OF them.
Lord DuHerson, British Ambassador to
france, and Develle, French Foreign
Minister, at their interview yesterday,
merely ampiltied the papers already pre-
pared Tor signature. Inquiry at the
foreign office ELECTS the information that
discussion was confined to a rough draft
OF the convention for a determination of
the frontiers of the territory to be handed
over to the French by the Siamese and the
formation OF buffer country between the
French and British possessions.
The Siamese minister informed the
government today that Siam was prepared
to give her supplementary guarantee re-
| CURED Dy France Tor the fulfilment of the
terms OF the ultimatum pending final set
Element OF the questions involved. The
| blockade is still in force.
| AT COUNCIL OF the ministry held today,
| Develle announced that Prince Vadhana
had signified Siam s willingness to con-
cede the supplementary guarantees de-
manded oy France. Deveile also stated
that his interview yesterday with
Lord DuHerin was based on the
negotiations of 1889, which recognized
the principle of a buffer state between
trench ana British possessions in the
east. The question OF a neutral zone was
reserved for future consideration. The
supplementary guarantees demanded by
France from Siam, which include the
temporary custody of the river and port
OF Chantibunat and that Siam
shall not establish military stations
in certain named places near the Cam
bodian frontier or within a certain dis
tance of the Mekong river, were con-
tanned in a note issued by Develle yes
terday and made public today. The pre-
text for imposing these heavier condi-
lions is alleged to be the delay of Siam in
accepting the original ultimatum.