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Hong Kong traders began to introduce spirit manufactured elsewhere, chiefly from China and Java, which was sold in Siam after payment of 3 per cent duty. They thus diminished the profit of the Siamese spirit farm. The treaty right of foreigners to engage in this trade was unquestioned and incontestable. The result was that the import of foreign liquor increased to such a degree that the Siamese Government became very concerned about stopping the foreign import which undermined the profitable monopoly of supplying the local demand themselves. In their view, they proceeded to negotiations with the Representatives in Siam of various Treaty powers, including France, Portugal, and the Netherlands, in October 1882, and succeeded in persuading the Consuls of these countries to refer to their Government an agreement to sign a treaty without...
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