The Sydney Morning Herald, 15 February 1904: FRANCO-SIAMESE TREATY

The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) Monday15 February 1904

FRANCO-SIAMESE TREATY.

SIAM YIELDS.

LONDON, Feb. 14.

Siam has granted the concessions demanded by M. Delcasse, the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, at the instigation of  the colonial party in France.

France will not evacuate Chantabun until she assumes possession of Kra.  The treaty has been signed.

By the Convention of 1902 the frontier between Siam and Cambodia was defined, and the frontier between Luangpratong and the provinces of Muang Phechai and Muang Nan. 

At the same time it was provided that simultaneously with the handing over by the Siamese Government to the French authorities of the provinces of Meluprey and Bassak the French should evacuate the town of Chantabun, occupied by them provisionally since 1893.

The Convention was objected to by the Colonial Party of France as not being favorable enough to French Interests, although the nation gained a great strip of territory. The cession of Kra, which joins Siam to the Malay Peninsula, has apparently placate the Colonial Party.