The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-11
NO STATIONS IN CHINA
The United States Is Not Negoti-
atipg for Them.
FRANCE IN THE FAR EAST
Strained Rslations With Siam-A Fresh
Demand Soon to Be Made Upon
China-Rioting in the French
Concession.

Vancouver. b. C., Aug. 10.-Mail adj
vices brought on the Empress CT Japan
say there is no truth in the report that
the United States has been negotiating
for coaling stations i'm hin
Strained relations are said to exist
between France and Siam, and the mt
look is serious. The news, as received
from Singapore. via Hong Kong, says;
The greatest excitement reigns in Sia-
mese official circles in Bankgok on ac-
count of the alleged conduct of NJ.
Montmittonet, a member of the French
legation. Under the French-Siamese
convention of 1898, all the Loatians In
Siamese territory must be allowed, and
even are assisted by the Siamese gov
eminent, to cross to the left bank 81
Mekong In the Watana district,
owing to high water in the Mekong a
caravan of Laotians, under French
guidance, quit anne soil every year.
This year they were superintendent by
NJ. Montmittonet and he met Mr.. Rob
yns, the representative of the Siamese
government. Both are new to the Dip
lomatic service, n IL is alleged that
the Frenchman treated the Sialnese
representative i'm an intOlerably over
bearing manner. Prince Devawongse
has practically commanded the French
government to dismiss Montmittonet,
and demands that he be punished.
Consequently the relations between the
Siamese and the French governments
are extremely strained. The
Il Is said. threaten to shoot down any
L.aotians who cross from IN ter
ritory without Siamese passports.
Numbers of them rave lone so. This
10000 40 H.. sha taal nj of tho rIIn-
ture.
The French will soon make "A fresh
demand on China. a Shanghai dis
patch dated July II. says: Serious
rioting has occurred on the French con-
cession, resulting in a number of Chi
nese being killed and wounded. The
French municipality claimed the Ming
20 Joss house and an unused cemetery
on the French concession for a pro-
posed school hospital and abattoir.
After fruitless parleys with the Taoti,
they seized the cemetery, pulling down
the walls. Their force included landing
parties from the French %gunboat
Eclaireur and teamer Oceanien. h
police and French volunteers numbered
altogether 200. The Ningpo population
were greatly excited, all the shops were
shu and all Ningpo servants ordered
to leave foreign employ.
A police station at the south end of
the French boundary was attacked this
morning. The Frenchmen fired, killing
Is, and 20 wounded were brought to the
hospital. A hundred and fifty men
were landed to-day from the Italian
man-of-war Marco Polo.
The Shanghai volunteer corps were
called out to-day as "a demonstration
and ordered to hold themselves in
readiness for an alarm tonight. The
six police, fully armed, are holding
the bridges between the English and
French concessions There is no Eng
lish force so far on the French conces-
sion. which is fully protected.
A letter from Wuchow, dated July II,
states that Peilin and Luchuan have
been sacked by the rebels. and Hing Y
is reported to have been taken. Fffteer
hundred troops have passed up the
river from Canton.