waters. If Portuguese position should eventually be declared untenable by Commission he will surrender all
338 works to China unconditionally.
(2) Chinese national vessels will be released from port formalities hitherto (? obligatory).
(3) He is prepared to open immediate negotiations with regard to a revision of regulations governing extra- dition of criminals and to recommend his Government to
adopt same.
(4) He points out that Chinese have not been putting forward any useful suggestion with a view to terminating deadlock although he has suspended work: and concludes
that by expressing a desire a plenipotentiary Boundary Commission should be appointed immediately on which both signatories to Treaty of 1887 shall be represented.
No mention is made of continuance of British
naval support.
Repeated to Peking.
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