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homener traders Legan

introduce spirit maufactured

which

was

Hongking

in

might

Jeans

to

in

China, Jowa.

f

elsewhere,

the

Mich

Siamese

three

With

this

to the serious

sold in

after payment of

per cent duty, they

Siam

dimination of the profit of

spirit farm. The treaty

night of foreigners

tti

in

this

egage

inquestioned &

tinable. The

to

trade

was

indeed

im:

import

questionable

increased

to

such a

degree

that

the

became

very

Siamese Gount demons of

stopping the foreign import

Lave

chiefly from

Hat they

nder

the profitable

monopoly of supplying the

Jen

demand themselves

natural

end

view they proceeded to

negotiations with the in Siam of the

Representatives

varias

Detoher

Treaty powers, <

1982

mcceeded in

the Consuls fa

persuading te

France, the

Portugal reference

Netherlands

sign

to

with out-

to their

Government

an

Which

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