became known there were large demonstrations in Hong Kong (during which the police made a number of arrests); the Godber episode endangered the Government's bland front on corruption, and the move against him was taken only to head off more popular protest over corruption. For the 30 resignations (immediately below), see TKP, No. 391 (November 15-21, 1973), p. 15.
Testimony of former Inspector in the Anti-Corruption Branch on Granada TV's 'World In Action' "The Squeeze”, October 1973.
31. FEER, March, 25, 1974. Focus on Hongkong, p.11; the Review's Open Letter to the Governor in this issue represents fairly clearly the concerns of the relatively advanced sector of the ruling bourgeoisie in the Colony - more "enlightened" than the civil service, but essentially concerned with trying to straighten things out in the interests of capitalism. The Governor himself contributes a foreword to the issue. The differences between these two texts illuminte the contradictions within the ruling group. Hong Kong Government, Hong Kong 1974, Report for the Year 1973, (Hong Kong,1974), p. 156.
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See Nigel Disney, "Hong Kong: The Military Base”, in AREAS, Hong Kong, p..97. The Times, April 14, 1973; there is an excellent piece on Britain's use of Nepalese mer- cenaries by T.D. Allman in the Guardian June 14, 1974 (“Remittance men of war”); Allman is highly criticial of "British participation in a practice that like slavery, pros- titution and opium-growing, – has been a feature of the international misuse of poor and isolated tribal peoples for centuries”. It may be noted that Britain used Sikh troops to seize the "New Territories” in 1898.
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Nicholas C. Owen, "Economic Policy in Hong Kong," in Hopkins, ed., Hong Kong: The Industrial Colony, p. 143; we are indebted to Owen for the useful concept of a transferred
economy.
In June 1974 the Hong Kong Government deported to Saigon 118 ethnic Chinese seeking refuge from the Thieu régime. Some of the 118 were Hong Kong-born; others were minors. The deportation was carried out in spite of the fact that many or all of the refugees faced persecution on their return: one was sentenced to life imprisonment in early July 1974. The deportation of at least some of the refugees was also probably carried out in contra- vention of Hong Kong's own laws. In 1970, too, Hong Kong refused entry to two eminent ethnic Chinese journalists from the Philippines, Quintin and Rizal Yuyitung, who had applied for permission to enter Hong Kong because the Manila Government was about to deport them to Taiwan where they clearly faced incarceration and possible death this for alleged offences committed outside Taiwan and in spite of the fact that the Yuyitung brothers did not come from Taiwan. On the movement of people to Hong Kong, see Walker, Under the Whitewash, pp. 3-9.
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Watergate has revealed a representative segment of Cuban émigrés: the legmen for the CIA and the Plumbers (Martinez, Sturgis, et al.), Nixon's financial associate, Bebe Rebozo, and Nixon's valet, Manolo Sanchez.
Information here and immediately below from Joe England, “Industrial Relations in Hong Kong," in Hopkins, ed., Hong Kong, especially pp. 224-227; cf. Owen, "Economic Policy," ibid., pp. 148ff; and Jon Halliday, "Hong Kong: The Economy," in AREAS, Hong Kong, pp. 35ff.
England, "Industrial Relations," p. 226.
For the list of ILO Conventions which London refuses to ratify for Hong Kong, see Appendix IV. In 1973 after Police Chief Superintendent Peter Godber had fled to England he wrote to one of his friends in the force, Superintendent Lloyd, asking him to tidy up his effects and ship them back to the U.K. "by a non-conference ship.— it's cheaper” (quoted in the Sunday Times, July 29, 1973).
Laurence C. Chau, "Estimates of Hong Kong's Gross Domestic Product, 1959-69,” Hong Kong Economic Papers, No. 7 (1972), is an extremely valuable attempt to assess GDP, comparing and revising the earlier estimates of Chou, Szczepanik, Chang and others. Tong-yung Cheng, "Hong Kong: A Classical Growth Model: A Survey of Hong Kong Indus- trialisation 1948-68," Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, Band 104, Heft 1 (1970), p. 140 [in English].
In June 1974 the Government introduced a new bill, the Companies (Amendment) Bill, to oblige companies to disclose more information than in the past. The Bill obliges com- panies for the first time to prepare their audited accounts in a consolidated form; it also means directors have to give more information to shareholders (but not the size of direc- tors' holdings in a company). There are three gaping loopholes in the Bill: shareholders in private companies can vote to exclude themselves from being covered by many of the Bill's provisions; the Financial Secretary is given broad discretionary powers to modify