SOVIET AND MONGOLIA
MUTUAL ASSISTANCE PACT OPERATION FOR 10 YEARS * (Received April 8, 10.35 p.m.) / .MOSCOW, April 7 . The newspapers in Moscow publish the text of the mutual assistance treaty between the Soviet and Outer Mongolia, which was signed on March 15. It provides for "military and material assistance if ejthcr country is attacked by any third State." The treaty is to be in operation for 10 years. Tho text reveals that it is a "gentlemen's agreement." This, in a sense, has existed between the two countries since 1920, but "in order to support the cause of peace in the Far East, and further to consolidate tho existing friendly relations between the two," it was decided to put the agreement into treaty form.
OBJECTION BY CHINA PROTEST FORWARDED NANKING, April 7 The Chinese Government has protested against the mutual assistance pact between the Soviet and Outer Mongolia as "an' infraction of Russia's pledge to recognise jOuter Mongolia as being under/ Chinese sovereignty."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22390, 9 April 1936, Page 11
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