| Show MORE LAND FOR BRITAIN importance of the territory re bently ceded to it by siam altho gh many englishmen are try lug to convince themselves that they are unable to shield from invasion and conquest even the british isles he process of extending their trans narine domin ons Is un interrupted ve do not refer to any merely lal change like that which has trans d the separate sec arate colon es in so th africa into a federation what we no v leave in mind is an addition of territory which hitherto has been al en but by the acquisition of which the scope of britain s sway in farther india is enlarged to a considerable ex tent the british fore agn office has issued as a parl paper the text ot the treaty signed at bangkok on march 10 by representatives of great br tain and S am together with an explanatory memorandum the an territory is of importance not only in respect of geography geo graph cal and situation but also in point of area and population it stretches across the malay penin sula immediately to the north of the so called straits settlements which already constitute a british protector rate it cpr npr ses son e 15 square m les and abo t inhabitants the ceded includes the na tive states of Ke lantan gan i kedah and peri s together with alu fine harbor of Lang kawi which is ex pecked to prove a useful stat on |
