Alluding to the Far East, M. Bonnet declared, "The heroic fight of General Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese nation in the defence of their independeríce and the integrity of their territory is watched closely by the French Government.
"Our representatives and countrymen in China have spared no sacrifices to alleviate the sufferings of the civilian population; hundreds of thousands of refugees, victims of invasion, have been saved.
"Recently, the French Ambassador in Tokyo was instructed to forward to the Japanese Government a Note making reserves anent French rights in China, as the British and American Governments had also done.
"The three Governments persist in their beliefs that the Washington Treaty of 1922 is still the basis of their positions in the Far Eas
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