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If your Excellency will be so good as to confirm that tho understanding is correct as set forth in the proceding paragraphs, the present note and your Excellency's reply there to shall constitute a part of the afore-mentioned Treaty of Friendship and Alliance.
I take this opportunity to offer your Excellency the assurances of my highest consideration.
(Signature) V.M. MOLOTOV.
14th day of the 8th month of the 34th year of the Republic.
Your Excellency,
I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your Excellency's note of to-day's date reading as follows:-
"With reference to the Treaty of Friendship and Alliance signed to-day between the Republic of China and the U.S.S.R. I have the honour to put on record the understanding between the high contracting parties as follows:-
"1.
In accordance with the spirit of the afore-mentioned treaty, and in order to put into effect its aims and purposes, the Government of the U.S.S.R. agrees to render to China moraí support and aid in military supplies and other material resources, such support and aid to be entirely given to the National Government as the Central Government of China,
"2.
In the course of conversations regarding Dairen and Port Arthur and regarding the joint operation of the Chinese Changchun Railway, the Government of the U.S.S.R. regarded the Three Eastern Provinces as part of China and reaffirmed its respect for China's full sovereignty over the Three Eastern Provinces and reaffirmed its recognition of their territorial and administrative integrity.
"3. As for the recent incidents in Sinkiang the Soviet Government confirms that, as stated in article V of the Treaty of Friendship and Alliance, it has no intention of inter- fering in the internal affairs of China.
"If your Excellency will be so good as to confirm that the understanding is correct as set forth in the preceding paragraphs, the present note and your Excellency's reply thereto shall constitute a part of the aforementioned Treaty of Friendship and Alliance."
I have the honour to confirm that the understanding is correct as set forth above.
I avail myself of this opportunity to offer to your Excellency the assurances of my highest consideration.
(Signature) WANG SHIH-CHIEH.
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