SIAM AND ITS KING.
[BY ANGUS HAMILTON IN THE "PALL mall
GAZETTE."
Many years have elapsed since the King of Siam offered to place bis domitions under the protection of Great Britain. Much, too, has happened in the interval, and the bulk of the territory over which lu ruled in 1889 has now
become a
voalion, Chulalongkorn I. took heart of grace, and by throwing his energies into the develop. ment of the guaranteed to him by that Convention Mjesty achieved considerable
#uccess.
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In the begining the old order of affairs in Siam, and the traditional practices of Grovera mant were aut aside. Expert foreign assistance thorough reorganiza- was procured and
Oppressies legislation was tion promoted. of the Freno Empire in lato-vation of the task forests in the north and
modifled trade was fostered by the con China, Frosch prasnasions, the east, and British India to the west, bedge the present the opening up of additional paddy fields in the in the south. Irrigation was introduced where boundaries of Sian: bat, although the western border has bean unaltered since 1889, the French profitable results might be anticipated, and the line is an anestled one, and under one pretext serveral departments of government were placed or another sinca 1493 it has been constantly under the direct control of forsiguers. As the result of these measures the last ten years have shifted.
remarkable increase in the prosperity of tins kingdom Exporta bare trebled, importa have doubted, while the revenue has increased from a million sterling in 1890 to a little under four willis sterling in the present year. It would be dimenlt to equal such a record of substantial progress, or to find elsewhere greator proof of regeneration, but of course these results would have been impossible to obtain without the constant, encouragement of the King, and his energetic co-operation in muitors where he was immediat sly concerned While the welfare of the people received earnest attention, so that the gambling-houses were suppressed, and slavery abolished, the
tratte
wern studied in a requirements of practical way. New canels t se heen opened out, four hundred miles of railway constructed, some thirty miles of electric streat rams Isid, postal and telgraphic system provided, and the electric light introduced to the capital, an that Bangkok nowadays is in measurable distance of becoming pan of the most progressive centres on the Indo-Malay l'eninsula.
The changes which have distinguished the Franco-Siames boundary during the last fourteen years in a misasure describe the position of affairs in Sism herself. If the Fronch sould be induced to respect some definite zone there would be nothing to disturb the peace of the kingdom or to retard her development. As it happens, every year brings some teruption of political questions inte. Bangkok, due to the machinations of the French Colonial
party that is the active instrument of French policy on the Indo-Chines: Poninania, So recently at March of this year the Siaminere Cambodian frontier came under discussion at Saigon, with the inevitable transfer of fuw Siamese provincos to French suzerainty and the consequent rea ljust mont of the French benndarios. Yet in 1896 Great Britain and Frauos ratified an arrange went by which, while they themselves ware restricted respectively to the west of the Meum River and to the east of the Mokong tiver, Siam was confirmed in the absola's possession of the Menam Valley, the ridest portion of the kingdom, the integrity and independance of which for the future was now porpolually
Education has never been very backward in guaranteed. Unfortunately, by the terms of a Siam, and improvemen ́s in the system of the farthor Arglo-French Convention of 914, the country have been welcomed by all classes. utility of the 1896 Agrem nt was largely By the employment of foreign teachers and the fastroyed; and, as was made orident by the result rating of a number of annual scholarships, of the Franco-Siamese Treaty of March of this s mavement has boon started, by the areas actually guaranteed by it were which the kingdom will be infused with your placed at the mercy of France. In any care, five healthier and a brighter spirit. King's
Battambong,
Scholars are permitted to take up their Provinces-BassC,
residence in any
educational centre in Europe,
Melepre Sisuphon, and Angkor-covering Hora Aquare miles and specially 24 ritmited to Slamess jurisdiction by the terms of the Anglo-French Agreement of 1806, have now become French prizes: Melupreo and Aussar by the terms of the Anglo-French Agreement of 18 6, have now become French prizes: Molupray, and cf 1904, Battambong, Augkor, and
HOW
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST SED, 1907.
The Dow Minister of Education is Herr Hulle, hitherto Under Secretary of 8:ate in the Ministry of Public Works.
The new Frussian Minister of the Interior is Herr von Moltke, who, after filling several im pertant administrative posts, was in 1903 ap pointed Chief President of the Province of Esat Prussia. lo is a nephew of Field-Marshal Count Moltke and brother of General con Moltke, the present Chief of the German General Steff.
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result of these changes is that Prince
low is more firmly fixed in bir position than over. He has shown that he is strong enough to carry out the policy be regards as mat beneficial for the nation and to accomplish the removal of the most powerful Ministers when be cannot depend on their full support. He has broken up the clign and camarilla diraoted against him, and can afford utterly to ignore the claims and demands of the Liberals, who look for compensation for consenting to be paired with the Conservatives in order to further his plans.
BANANAS.
“The basana." enthusiastically exclaims A distinguished botanist, "has wall been called the king of all fruits, and this greatest blessing stored by Providence on the inhabitants of It ie not the least achievement of the world." modern civilisation that this invaluable food should have been made during recent years sa available in this country as it is, and in as abundance and regularity of supply no home grown produce of the kind can compete with. It was not always so. Gerarda the herbalist, who wrote his great work in 1597. though strongth of ita traditional excellence, never he reverenced "the apple of Gol" on the saw but one specimen, which, he explains, came to him in pickle from Aleppo, doubt less after many months' travel on the way; and many still living can remember time when the
banana was
soever, then may be seen the shapo and forme of a crosse with a man fastened thereto. My- self have seen the fruit, and eat it in pisoss, tho orcase I might perceive, like as the forme of a sprod-eagle in the root of ferus, but the man I leave to be sought for by those which have better eies and judgemont than my selfe,"
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AMERICA'S PRIZE GIRLS.
"THE BUCK BYR DAISIES," Moro, American "prize girls," this time from Ohio, nicknamed the Book-Eye State, have embarked for London. They are called "the Buck Eye Daisies," and belong to the same category of fair Amari an tourists as the Kentucky Thoroughbreds" and the Georgien Bellos," who did Frgland last summer,
Like the Kentucky and Georgis excursionists, Ohio's representative were chosen by the suffrages of the readers of the State's leading newspaper, not on the ground of their beauty, an so many people imagine, but their popularity. 9svente-n "Back-Eye" maidens got enougl τρίοις
do England and get a entitling them to do gline pan at Furope at the expense of the newspaper which promoted the contest, and whose only return will be the advertisement Incidentally they will do something abroad, it is expected, to boom their native Siste
Mina Uetiek, of Colambur, is in charge of the party, which will be away seven weeks altogether, bat the editor of the Ohio State fourust, Colonel Wilson, gees with them to write up their travels. They expect enterpris ing-European newspapers to interwiew them, and are bringing plenty of photographs for publication,
The "Back-Eye Girta" ware shown around New York in huge chers à banes, which in Arica are called "rubber neek conches. Folk who ride in these chara-à-banes are sallad choice erotic, somthing for whionbar-necks, and their sightseeing is called rabbering, a term indicating a certain plasticity a liking could only be gratified with assistance of neck on the part of people auxious to see of Covent Garden and a long purse into the everything. It is not rade 17, and is bargain. Few incidents, indeed, in the varied gezerally applied in America to tourists. history of foodstuffs, have been more remark- able than the steady advance of the fruit in and on their return are expected to devote their popular estimation, or the energy that has mot the ever growing and excellent taste thus indi- services to Government. His Maret dated. In 1944 the total imperis into England affords a striking example of the beneficial effect of Western indgences. He has sequired wore only 10,000 banches. Daring last season, perfect knowlege of the English language by ene firm alone, and there is every prospect and through a taste for travel he is familiar of this enormous quantity largely increasing in with the economic and social conditions of the
When the Ohio contingent returned to their hotel from their six hours' “ rubbering " lately, reporters sunt them, and each maid I told her impressions of America's biggest city. From these it is pretty evident that the girls are willing to tell a few home truths about the and grotesque which Now Yorkers rather resant. the contigent entrained
in a single week 170,000 bunches were landedilding, thoroughfares
When
Bassac by the terms of the Franco-Simese hole India has attracted him, Europe given the future. La Jamaica especially the develop. Columbus for New York a brass band headed Ton in 1907.
him
e
Thement of the trade since 1901 has been phone mual, for it is in these West Indian Islands, and in the rich soil of the Central American coasts; that the plant reaches its finest develop
matter for profonad reflection, even the For East has shown him how he may ameliorata the lives of his propis. His Majesty's are ciation of Western ways, his innate compreben sien of the Occidental point of view, grable him the more readily to detect what is un. suited to the Orient in anything he may notico, As a consequence there have been no mistakes in the work of raform to which the King has put bis hand, and that it may be continued at bis Moj sty's death has been provided for by the
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daisy chain nearly a mile long was borne in their wake. When they oubacked on the Anchor liner Columbia, there was no demonstration, Before sailing the girls said they desired it to be known that they were not selected for their good looks but for their popularity. In the Kentucky party, last year, were some rather plain Joung women, and the announcement. published in Paris jast before they arrived there, that the Kentucky prize beautire were
eat impairing the validity of the protsefing care which has been bestowed upon the training 14ft. apart, the largest variety, which sometimes coming," simply spoilt their trip to the ge
PRINCE BULOW'S POLICY
Berlin, Juns 23rd.
The point disclosed by the Freach annetation of provinges fortaing an integral part of the buffer between Great Brit in and France in South-Eastern Asia, which it was the sole object of the Anglo-French Agreement of 18% to oreate, is important, if not, indeed, vital to Angle-Siamese interests in the Monum Valley. If an aron guaranteed by a specifle instrument, in this case the Anglo-French Agreement of 1808, can to shorn af sn appreciable slice with- document, it is obvious that there an be 20 of the Crown Prince. Educated at Sandburat and Oxford, bis Royal Highness early exhibited real objection to au spplication of the same the qualities which now so distinguish his
to the remainder. Unhappily, to father. procedure
prime ime Fortunately his Majesty is in the as has been mentioned already, in this instance objections can be met by the powers con of life. Born in 1853 and called to the throne ferred on France by Great Britain, under the in 1868, in spite of the manifold attractions of modification of the Anglo-Frenos Agreement an Eastera environment, he enjoys the best of of 1890, which the Supplementary Anglo- health. Short in stature, but gracious and of French Deolaration of 1904 undoubtedly a charming disposition, he makes friends, and is assured of a warm welcome at the English establishes. The fact is that the intter paper, ao far as brent Britain was concerned, did not Court. take into consideration safficiently of French in the very areas to which the di would be devated, Nevertheless, fourteen years ago, under the Liberal Govern ment of the day, the merest hint of French flasigns upon these very same province was aufficent to can Lord Rosebury to declare that Sin's rights to the provinces which remain to the west of the Mekong are indisputable, and Dould not be infringed without serious, perhaps fatal, injury to her integrity and independence," while a proposal to acquire special control over them put forward by the French Plenipoten tary, M. Le Myre de Vilers, was denounced by Lord Bosebery with equal emphasis as "A blow at that integrity and independence of the Siamese Kingdom which the French Govern ment have so often, and so specifically, promised At the same time, their to respect." maintenance under Siamese jurisdiction by the same authority was described as "a British interest of high importance," a view in which Parliament concurred. Yet it is true that territory, the possession of which in 1889 Great Britain and Faunce ware ready to contest by Force of arms, which ja 806 was withdraw specially from the influence of these two competing Powers, has now been absorbed quite openly by one of them without a sign of recognition from the other of the significance of the act.
The general expectation that the audience granted by the Emperor to the Imperial Chancellor at Kie. would have important political consequences has been realise ?.
It was officially announced last evening that the resignations of Count Fosadowsky, Imperial Secretary of State for the Interior, and of Dr.
and these are set at distances of from 12ft, tá
attains a height of 40ft, of course requiring greatest space between the trees. Every sack throws up many youny shoote, and from the two, three, or more are selected to grow into mature bushes, according to the number of heads which the land will carry. When the young plants have reached their full height, the garden becomes a charming wilderness leaves, rippling of broad, silky, green in the wind and affording home นค innumerable tropical birds and butterflies. Destraction, however, followe soon after this state of perfection has been rearted. Each shoot or stem bears one bunch only, and when this has been gathered the trunk is.cat down the roots. In the following seans—and seasons are divided by small intervals in the tropi other growths start from old clumps, and thus crop after crop may be harvested with little additional outlay when the garden is once est- ablished, though it is usual to replaat after ag interval of from twaive to twenty years. From of the roots to the appearance of the fruit
to
von Stadt, Prassinu Minister of Education, the sprotter on the summit about sight
have been accepted.
The retirement of Count Posadowsky itt a most serious loss to the Imperial Service, and it is deplored on all hands. For ten years he has been the representative is the Go. vernment of ideas of social reform has administeres his office in Bach an
wuscientions maunor able and
that le has been strained Minister for Social Poli tiea" It is partly to the success with which
and
months slapse, the cluster being prevaded by z beentifal winered blossom.
guily
One of the chief essentials in growing the bauane, a very succulent plant, is an abundance of water. If this is not supplied by material rainfall at abort intervale, Nature has to he Bupplemented by an elaborate system of irrigation, which then becomes one of the heaviest expenses confronting those who oper he has carried through so many reforms 000-gardons for the first time. In Central America, ducive to the well-being of the working clast Jamaica, and the neighbouring islands, an that be owes his downfall, for this has always acre of really fertile loud will produce about been a thorn in the Reab of the Agrarians and 300 bunches a year the quality being maintained an important section of the great industrialists without any deterioration for at least seven Conut Posadowsky's enemies have asserted also
sessons, after which mazuring becomes advis that he has been a frequent guest at Count
able."As soon as the banana hanch is aut, and Eulenburg's round table, and are moreover,
with the least possible delay, it is got down to the repeatedly accried him of intriguing to obtain
ses court, oither by the prosaic railway, or far the post of Chancellor. His foal fault has been
more picturesquely, upon the
beads of that he did not agree with the latest phases of the
dressed negro women, who sing as they march Chancellor's home polioy. It is stated that he
with bardens apon their heads which nothing considered the broach with the Centro & grave
but long practice could ansble them to endure, take and, consequently, had become an an-
At the seaport the crop accumulates until one willing coadjator in the work of carrying out of the numerous steamers especially devoted to the Government's programme resulting from the traffic, and espable of carrying 61,000 that action.
bunches, arrives, and in the capacious holds, The Forwärts, the organ of the party in whose where so even temperature of about 56 deg. is cause Count Porndowsky bas laboured so ardently, writes: "With the removal of Count steadily maintained, it is stored and borne Posadowsky the only personality in the present swiftly across the Atlantic to England, which
now takes all it can get, and to F
urope, which has Government disappeara. Prizos Bülow has
is
In India it was called the food of the Wiss Me," and has been for ages in the tropics all that care and wheat are in colder countries. Doctors are utivoraal in their praise of it.
Sir James Crichton-Browne lately said, I wish all our school children could have bananas from
The claim of France to the Trans-Mekong region of Siam is based upon the contention that the ares in question originally belonged to Aquam and Cambodia, territories which, niace 1884, have been incorporated in a French pro tectorate, The claim is not easily justified, since the district passed to Sism by virtue of conquest, and has remained in her undisturbed throughout the greater past of the Even French authorities
Last
pared yea
to the Siamese a period of aninterrupted concede Docupation
of not less than half a century! buen effected, however, it is perhaps as consider the notn
Now
1893
of
fot
that the surrender of the province to rid of the last man of importance, of attain. fast acquiring a like taste for this fine fruit.
Inal
position of Siam Shore of
* monts,
and
possession of the Cambodian provin s, France he has had to defend it against coast time to time. It is not a favoured fruit, that is to
boundaries of these provinces merge into to the logical Count Podoweky's fall is enable form all the essential elements of
possaseing the ability to work. Considerable sovereignty by the Agreements of Count Posadowsky's social pulisy was a policy
and 1996, 1904 and 1007, the Independence not of frondom bat of barobatic guardiana the kingdom is threatened with extinction o not a social policy of rig it and justice, bat of account of dimenities which will arise with France Christian charity. But it was a social policy, now that the French Colonial party are and
France attacks ou the part of large employers of labour, undo bled covets the valley of the Menam, and it is the latter whe bave overthrown any a little engar and water and a drop of essence thrown in, but food-froit, containing in an together with the port of Bangkok, and as the him.
Consequence of
the last Reichstag nutrition. I sin quite sure the Jatzaion hanana valley of the Menam and lack well-defined | elections. The victory of the Governmsut
than which there is neue faer or better flavour- frealier, no real obstacle is prosented to the war a victory for XXL unbounded,
ed when of the proper degree of ripeness, is ja Roubinuation of the French forward movement. lastic world paling of military and naval thereof cheap luxury & sabalaatial ad- A the same time, it is necessary to the interests schemes. Behind this policy however, stand
dition
our food supply, working classes. in likely to commend of our trade that the valley of the Menam should as the most zealous bustlere and the most
itself more and more to the remain an open market; and, as time is short, if interested parties the great capitalists Theme
our large town. Another professor declared any shred of independance is to be preserved to are at the same time opponents of all social
the benson 1o be at the bead of all fruits as a Siam it is bighly desirablo that Great Britain policy, and to them Count Posadowsky kas bon should decide upon her course
BBorificed." of action.
Count Posado waky is to be succeeded by The position of the Throno throughout the
Kierr that has marked the clash of Anglo- period
vou Bethmann Hellweg, at preson French interests in
sin Siam has been exceedingly Praesian Minister of the Interior, of whom it trying.
Yet there is little doubt that but for is known only that he is an able admini tra'or the care with which the King has watched over and a god speaker, and has received a moderu the destinies of his country, mach greater events education. He is fifty years old, and has held long since would bare takoa place. If the
present post for two years and a quarter. Dr. von Stadt bas long besa the sabject of intelligence which his Majesty has displayed since i had been revealed in bistrontent of bitter a' tack on the part of the Liberals, who the earlier diffinities, the French would a thare accuse him of a desire to keep Prussia in a stata been encouraged to advance. Reponsibility does of int-Hootaal retrogression. His opinions also, not entirely rest with him, however, siues the however, did not coincide with Prince Bülow's refusal of the British Government to plass polier of breaking with the Centre and depoad-mer, at all even's, in the old world, have valued Siam beneath their protection exercised a depres-ing on the Conservative-Liberal majority in the since the dawn of history. According to one Reichstag. The position of Minister of Educa- legend it was this which proved so fatal to sing effect upon a very impressionablo nature.
Adam and Eve, Gerarde, in his "Herbal, al- Obviously, it was hopeless for Siam to expoot tion in Prussia at the present moment is peu Ada
trendy quoted, tells us that "the Gregions and Hia domsin includes all that Christians which inhabit Syria, and the Jews to achieve any succes in opposing so important liarly difficult. a Power as France. Moreover, to the necessity appertains to religion, la education, and to medi of having to ratire before the encroachments cine, and while Prince Bülow hus promised that also, suppose it to be that trea of whose frait of the French Colonial party there offered no amore libers! spirit shall pervade legislation Adam did taste." He calls it Adam's apple, and observes. If it be out according to the length for the Empire of Prussia is governed in a spirit oblique, transvers, or any other way what- alternative when Great Britain declined to in- tervene. Upon the conclusion of the 1890 Con- that may truly be called reactionary.
his
food. He pointed out the interesting foot that one acre of well-known banapa frees is folly as productice as would be twenty sores of wheat, Medical journals and expert, diotia's all praise and advise us to ent the golden, sun-stooped fruit.
The baanna contains more than three times as much prataid as the apple, and twice as much carbohydrate, and three times as much fat as the orange. Is short, its composition raises it from the rank of a "more relish to that of a. food
Many traditions centre abose a fruit which
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