Show BENCH FRENCH ANNOUNCE A 4 A 7 outgoing ut vessels must I 1 I 1 leave by saturday 1 S AMS IAMS POSITION IS CRITICAL I 1 unless easland Interra interferes franca will make slam a french colony B us sla sta will be neutral I 1 0 BANGKOK july 27 T h e french fleet gave notice of a blockade today way all out going vessel vessels being warned warn e d to clear c 1 c ar by b y saturday or be tied up T the b e bloc blockade k a d e e ex x tends along the entire north coast of the gulf there Is little doubt among foreigner foreigners but that it Is the tile french r rench intention to make sign a french colony and unless england intervenes there is little hope the trench french will desist from extreme measure measures although it is v well ell known to them the government of slam Is exceedingly anxious to avoid war the tile general expectation in bangkok pa 1 that parly varly in august the french fleet will wilt attack bangkok and land men Los DOit july 27 the pall malt mall gazette says this evening it learns from high authority that the france siamese dial difficulty lias has been bellied settled france agreeing to accept proposals and abandon claims to the territory between the eighteenth and twenty third parallel in the house of lords this evening even roseberry evening announced he could not ma make a a full statement regarding dinc the siamese matter until the report was received from lord lo 10 fro from I 1 I 1 the great britain had bad confined itself to providing ro viding for the safety of british lives and interests in bangkok it had from the beginning avoided giving advice to siam beyond occasions when she asked for it but had urged u r bled her er to make terms as quickly as possible 8 0 with her powerful neighbor nevertheless tile less the british government Is not indifferent dil Terent to events now passing in slam her great com inertial iner cial interests there woula be e looked after A blockade might raise onie some rest questions ions of international law law but G ireat r e at britain it ain was not yet formally a ad of fit it and perhaps the necessity might I 1 averted The government mentis is glad to believe belleve france Prance Is s no I 1 leis alive a than great britain to the value of siamese independence ri dence regarding tiR it t a s a matter of lma import t that prance france and ireat great should ri not ot have co ws fro miers because that would involve treat military expenditures and create a liability to a panic in the commons 3 gir edward orey grey made a 1 statement 1 NEW YORK july 27 it Is je arneLd authoritative russian Ilus sian source taj tile russian fleet now adnew at new york is un ler der orden order to join the french mediterranean squadron at toulon it was alao also stated that three of the russian warships now liere here have received preparatory orders which mav may cause them to a after rea reach abitu lug g toulon t 0 ul 0 n to east india waters the i informant f a n w h hen e n asked if the orders bad had any connection with the siamese imbroglio bro gilo professed entire ignorance and this ignorance igno he emphasized by a peculiar shrug of the shoulders the date of sailing will Ul depend upon cable calas order orders from frota bt st tl Ps isu g PARIS kaly fc uy 27 A local paper publishes a bt st petersburg saying that the czar has ordered vice vita admiral Lt commander of the russian pacific squadron to proceed to siam with all available ava flable speed it Is understood that russia intends to remain neu neutral in siani siam dispute after a conference with the british ambassador bas and the french foreign minister this afternoon the following semiofficial semi end official statement staten ieni waa was issued it may be taken for granted that france intends first to settle the questions at tons of treaty violation and national jue dignity created bythe by the siamese attitude frances I 1 manees rule of action wu wil bae not to allow show any foreign interference LONDON july 27 the pekin correspondent a spon dent of the standard save while not likely to attempt to enforce Sure riun rients rights as belong long as tile scene of conflict Is limited to benam and ower mekong I 1 can state positive lyon the higi higuert lest authority she site la Is fully determined to uphold her dominion on the upper lekon mekong LONDON july 27 sir bir charles dilke said t this h evening he believed Daf daffern ferin and avelle D develle e bad had reached an a r bement by v which france will abandoner abandon tr her claim claims to the upper lekon mekong the stands adf db pans correspondent alsol gathers that develle and Duffer dufferin lit greed agreed compromise on the frontier |