Show SIAfl AND FRANCE I I Relations Are Said to Be Very Badly Strained I I > New York June 30A special to the Herald from Bangkok says I Slams relations with France are j strained It Is reported that 100 Siam J ti I ese under a royal commissioner have invaded the province of Gourg in Luang Phrabang collected taxes sacked and burned villages and carried car-ried off a number of prisoners The Siamese also invaded i the Cam bonian province and at Pnompen pll laged a number of villages Siamese I officials also prevent the Laotians to the right bank of the Mekong river mr fth iefr i from returning i to the left bank French registration is not acknowledged I acknowl-edged in Bangkok or in the provinces Papers of French proteges are torn < by the police and claims of French protection pro-tection is not allowed Cambodians Annamltes Laotians Chinese Swiss Greeks Turks and Arabs who are French proteges are seized for military service and the wives of the defaulters imprisoned The international court refuses to I hear the French complaints A priest named Emanuel has been I wounded at Pakucha by Siamese sol 1 diers and another priest named Guego has been obliged to arm his flock for protection against the Siamese of ficials Several Cambodian priests have been kept in prisons for a year without log been brought to trial and the king has refused to release them |