'A Royal Snub to Moscow: The it Accepted Riga, May 5.
It jg reported from Moscow that, owing to the reluctance of King] Amanullah of Afghanistan to} participate to-day in the ceremony handing over the aeroplanes! purchased from subscriptions by, the people to the "Our Reply. to, Chamberlain" fund, the Soviet has} decided to postpone the ceremony] until His Majesty's departure—
Reuter, No Militery Alliance With Russia Proposed Moscow, May 7.
It is officially stated that the reports published abroad that King Amanullah of Afyghanistan has refused to enter into a military al-neither accepted nor rejected any such project, seeing it has never been proposed."—Reuter.
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