"ولايات الجزيرة العربية السبعة المستقلة [اليمن، عسير، الحجاز، نجد، الكويت، جبل شمر، الجوف]" [ظ‎‎٣‎٢‎٨] (٦٨٠/٦٥٦)

6. During August and September 1934 the Chinese withdrew to the east of the
Scott Line, partly because of the difficulties they met with in obtaining supplies
and partly, no doubt, because of the firm protests which were made to the Chinese
Government. A force of about 700 Burma Military Police have since been kept in
the field and conditions in the Wa States have been generally quiet.
7. Meanwhile negotiations with the Chinese Government for the determination
of the section of the frontier in dispute were taken in hand. On 9th April 1935
His Majesty's Minister at Peking completed an Exchange of Notes with the Chinese
Government providing for the establishment of a Joint Boundary Commission
consisting of two representatives of each Government and a neutral Chairman to be
appointed by the President of the Council of the League of Nations. The first duty
of the Commission is to ascertain and determine on the ground and fix on the map
the frontier line prescribed by the 1897 Convention. They will also report ad
referendum to the two Governments in the light of their local examination of the
ground the cases in which the question appears to them to arise of local modifi
cations of the general treaty line on the basis of mutual concessions. In a separate
Exchange of Notes the two Governments agreed that the question of any
modifications in the frontier line in the light of the report of the Commission
or m the light of such topographical, historical or political factors as may appear
relevant, will be subsequently negotiated and. if necessary, a conference will be held
for this purpose at Nanking. The results of the report of the Commission and of
any such subsequent negotiations will then be embodied in a new Agreement.
8. It is possible for the Boundary Commission to work only during the open
season, which runs from December until May. The President of the Council of the
League of Nations has appointed as Chairman of the Boundary Commission Colonel
Iselin, a fewiss national, ^ ho has already presided over a similar Commission which
demarcated the frontier between Iraq and Syria and appears to be a most suitable
choice. Ihe British Commissioners will be Mr. Clague and Mr. Grose, two officers
of the Government of Burma. It is hoped that the Commission will start work in
the field m December and the Government of Burma has been authorised to
correspond direct with the Chinese Government, through His Majesty's Minister at
Peking, on the question of the route to be followed by the Commission and other
details regarding its organisation.
P olitical D epartment,
14th June 1935.