THE LITTLE ENTENTE An Alliance Reported

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21806, 11 June 1936, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE LITTLE ENTENTE An Alliance Reported

The Little Entente, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, and Jugoslavia, will become a formal aMiance, says a report from London. These three countries have hrd defensive understandings for more than 10 years, and since 1933 they have been more elaborately connected than before. In 1921 they formed what has been known as the Little Entente (entente, a French word meaning, a modern political use, a friendly understanding between states) and in 1933 they drew up provisions which made their relations more than a friendly understanding. In April of this year these three countries sent notes of disapproval to Austria when she broke the 1919 treaty of Saint-Germain by reintroducing conscription or compulsory military training or service.

It is said now that the Entente will probably become a formal defensive alliance; there has recently been held a secret conference of the heads of the Little Entente. They fear the restoration of the Hapsburgs in Austria and are alarmed at the state of affairs in France and in Europe generally.

New Zealand Missionaries Safe The two New Zealand missionaries, Misses Freda Horn and Daisy Macmillan, who are members of the American-Ethiopian Sudan Missions, arrived half starved in Addis Ababa, last week. After they left thek mission station at Marayo they hid in the mountains for three -weeks and endured" many harrowing experiences. King George Memorial Fund The King George V. Memorial Fund was opened on the anniversary of King George’s birthday, June 3. The Royal Family have given generously to the fund. King Edward has given £IOOO, Queen Mary has given £ 1000, the Duke and Duchess of York £ 500, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester £250, I b* Duke and Duchess of Kent £250.