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supporters, communist trade union members and employees of
communist concerns; their schools provide for a high level
of political indoctrination and are not easy to control.
On the other hand the low standard of education that they
provide serves to restrict their appeal in non-communist
circles.
18.
Hitherto Chinese students in Hong Kong have displayed
little interest in politics; but in recent months there has
emerged a body of student opinion (allied with a group of
dissident expatriates) which has attempted to arouse some
hostility towards authority. This group has no discernible
political allegiance (although one or two of its members are
self-professed 'Maoists') and is not connected either with
the Communists or with the Kuoming tang. The group has
established contacts with Chinese students attending Universities
both in the United States and in Canada, most of whom came from
Hong Kong. The group has sought to make issues out of two
particular matters which are at present arousing interest in the
Colony. These are the proposal that Chinese should be made an
official language in Hong Kong and the decision of the United
States Government to hand back the Sen Ka Ku islands to Japan.
IMMIGRATION CONTROL AND REFUGEES
19. More than a million immigrants and refugees have entered
Hong Kong from China since 1950. Because other countries
have refused to accept Chinese immigrants and because the
refugees now constitute a substantial proportion of the
population of the Colony, the Hong Kong Government has been
obliged to follow a policy of integrating them into the community.
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