FORM RATHER THAN SUBSTANCE
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peace an effective treaty of alliance between Russia, Britain and France of a defensive character, was a fun- damental assumption.
GENEVA MECHANISM
The western European powers had, however, made such
reserva-
OVERSTAYED THEIR LEAVE
Two Europeans were charged this morning at the Central Magis- tracy before Mr. R. Edwards with a breach of the Passport Ordinance.
It was stated that the two fendants, Rudolf Israel Kuttner, 27, born in Berlin, and Alfred Aufang, 28, also born in Berlin, and at pre-
de-
THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 1, 1939.
THE HIGH PRICE OF CHEAPNESS Few who have discovered the high price of cheapness ever experiment with quantity over quality when it comes to the important business of eye-care. The yet unbit- ten, however, would be wise to heed us, and for their optical requirements pat- ronise.
sent residing at No. 70 Robinson STOP PRESS
Road, arrived in the Colony on May tions, such as for example, the in-12, with a visa authorising direct corporation of part of these obliga-
transit through the Colony. tions in the mechanism of the Lea-
They had failed to avail them- gue of Nations-that fear was selves of the earliest and most con- aroused that under such circum-venient means of transport, thus stances an assistance pact might be failing to comply with the visa's of purely fictitious character.
As regards guarantees for Eas- tern European and other States, the Soviet must insist uncondition- ally that all states with which she has a common frontier should be in- cluded in the guarantee.
NOT YET ENDED
directions.
Both defendants stated that they were willing to go back to Shanghai from where they came. An order was made for their expulsion from the Colony.
The forms and the extent of im- TRADE INDEX
mediate help in the case of an at- tack on one of the three partners to the alliance must be stipulated from the outset.
The negotiations, he said, not yet ended.
were
M. Molotoff declared that the spearhead of the German-Italian pact was directed against the Wes- tern Powers rather than against the Soviet Union.
London, To-day. Retail sales in April were 1.3 per cent. higher than a year earlier.
Stocks were 1.8 per cent. lower,. but employment was 0.7 per cent. greater.-British Wireless.
cil passed a motion approving fully and entirely the foreign policy of After the speech, the Soviet Coun- the Government.-Trans-Ocean.
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