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 either purchased from Europe or America and is of the best quality and in no case will any inferior material be employed in substitution. We hereby make this declaration and respectfully request you to take note. This note is attached to the Supple- mentary Articles Agreement, and as both parties are in agreement seals are affixed in testimony (Mitsui & Co.; Representative, Omura), February 21.

Whereas the Proper and Supplementary Agreements for the construction of a large wireless telegraph station were completed on February 21, 1918, and whereas it is mutually agreed by both parties that during the term of thirty years no other party shall be allowed to erect a similar wireless telegraph station for communicating telegraphically with Japan, Europe and America, neither may the Chinese Government itself erect an installation, and the Cabinet have in meeting passed the application, and whereas the conditions of the agreement have been mutually agreed upon and the agreement has been signed by both the contracting parties at the end of the document, and, furthermore, the statement as set forth in the preceding has been mutually agreed upon by both the contracting parties and that the procedure set forth in Article 17 of the Proper Agreement shall be adopted.

7th year of the Republic of China, March 5. (Mitsui & Co., Omura.)