The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-06-11
FRANCE AND
THE S|AMESE
A Serious Deadlock Occurs at Bangkok Over
the PhrayOt CaSe
TROUBLE DIFFICULT TO ADJUST
The French Insist Upon Having a
New Trial of the Siamese Mandarin.
Telegraph in Asia-Three Thousand
Miles of Wire Constructed Across
Chinese Turkestan Other Notes of
Foreign Lands.
BANGKOK. June @

IN SERIOUS deadlock, which has
I'M arisen between the Siamese and
IN the French, is causing considera.
IL u BILE agitation. The Siamese gov.
eminent has refused to produce Phray-
OF before the tribunal for Judgment to-
day in order toprevent the French from
seizng and conveying him to one of
their guuboats, The French insist on
his production and their attitude is
menacing,
Prince Devawongse left here today
to consult the king. The tribune is
dissolved. and now the preparations to
arrest Phrayot are an open assumption
OF SeZeranity.
The present trouble between the
French and the Siamese is due to the
fact that France insists on new trial
OF the SiamesY mandarin Phrayot. who
Is accused of the murder of the French
agent, NJ. Grosgurin, but VINO was &C
quilted OF the charge at Bangkok.
France has the right to appeal to a
court by its own constitution in ac-
cordance with the following provisions
in the Franco. .Siamese convention:
THE authors of the attacks made on
the French at Kengkhan and Kammoup
shall be tried by the Siamese authori-
ties. A representative Of France will
be present at the trial and will see that
the sentences pronounced are carried
into effect. The French government
reserves the right to decide whether
the punishments are adequate,
and should they not be new
trial will be had before mixed tri-
Gunal. whose composition that govern
ment shall its elf determine. Siam is
to hand over to the French authorities
all French subjects. whether French.
men. Annamilrs, Cambodians or Lao
tians, on the left bank of the river, who
are ut present undergoing imprison-
ment, no matter what their offences
might be-.
This action on the part of the French
government is evidently calculated to
keep open certain old sores in Bang.
kok, where a general belief in the in
nonce of Phrayot prevails.
TELEGRAPH IN ASIA.
New YORK, June 10-A private let
ter received from Kashgar, Chinese
Turkestan, says that the telegraph is
expected to reuch that place shortly.
The line has been nearly three years
under construction from Tientsin, near
Pekin, and traverses about three thou
sand miles of Central Asia. 1t has
been built by a young Chinese engi-
neer, Woo Hown Yung, who was edu-
Gated at the Hopkins grammar school
at New Haven, Conn.
The line presented unusual Difficult.
ties, crossing vast waterless tracts in
the Desert Of Cobb. In places the poles
had to be hauled distance of 500 to
600 miles from the forests in the Than
Shan mountains. In northeast China
the fanatical inhabitants destroyed
200 miles of poles and wire after the
completion Of the line. Thirteen OF
the leading men of the district were
beheaded by order Of the imperial gov
ernment Rs punishment and warning.
Branch lines are building to Kiahtka,
Iii (Kulja), and other points, uniting
with the Russian system.
The rates are exceptionally low, con-
sidering the distance, being 6 cents for
a Chinese word from Kashgar to Pekin
and double rates for foreign languages.
AS the Chinese have no alphabet,
Morse characters are used correspond
ing to the code.
DIVIDING PROPERTY.
DUBLIN. June 10.-An old woman
who owned half an acre of ground at
Managh, county of Tipperary, died
Friday without leaving "a relative or
specifying nm heir. Her neighbors
quarrelled over the possession of her
land yesterday. Some thirty men
fought with scythes ana pitch forks
round her house. Eventually they
broke down the door, and upset the
body. They beat each other with the
candles which had stood round the
body. When the fight was ended two
men lay dead at the doorstep and five
others we're TOO severely wounded to
walk from the scene of the conflict.