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waters. If Portuguese position should eventually be declared untenable by Commission he will surrender all works to China unconditionally.
(2) Chinese national vessels will be released from nort formalities hitherto (? obligatory).
(3) He is prepared to open immediate negotiations with regard to a ravision 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
and concludes deadlock although he has suspended work:
& plenipotentiary Boundary
by expressing a desire
that
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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