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TO IMMEDIATE F C O TELEGRAM NUMBER 662 OF 17 JUNE/INFO IMMEDIATE
SAIGON.
HONG KONG TELEGRAM TO SAIGON NUMBER 7 OF 16 JUNE: ILLEGAL
IMMIGRANTS FROM SOUTH VIETNAM,
REPATRIATION OF 118 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FROM SOUTH VIETNAM TOOK PLACE AS PLANNED EARLY THIS MORNING. NEWS LEAKED WE THINK VIA SOUTH VIETNAMESE CONSULATE GENERAL) SOME HOURS BEFORE AND THERE WAS A MINOR DEMONSTRATION AT KAI TAK AIRPORT, INVOLVING ABOUT 50 PEOPLE WHO CLAIMED KINSHIP AND SOME STUDENTS OF A LEFT-WING ORGANISATION WHO WERE FOUND INVITING THEIR FRIENDS BY TELEPHONE TO JOIN IN. THERE WERE SOME ARRESTS, BUT DEMONSTRATORS WENT HOME IN ORDERLY FASHION AFTER PLANES
DEPARTED.
2, ONE OF THE GROUP CLAIMED THAT HE HAD A BIRTH CERTIFICATE
SHOWING THAT HE HAD BEEN BORN IN HONG KONG. HIS LAWYER ASKED FOR HIS RELEASE AND FOLLOWED THIS WITH A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS. SINCE IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE IN THE TIME FOR THE MAN TO SUBSTANTIATE THE CLAIM, HE WAS NOT REPATRIATED AND HIS CASE IS NOW UNDER EXAMINATION.
3. N.C.N.A. WHO HAVE BEEN APPROACHED BY PEOPLE CLAIMING TO BE RELATIONS AND STUDENTS OF THE NEW LEFT HAVE NOT SO FAR MADE ANY MOVE. WE HAVE HEARD THAT THERE WILL BE A DEMONSTRATION AT THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE CONSULATE-GENERAL TODAY.
4. DECISION TO REPATRIATE HAS NOT BEEN EASY, BUT WE ARE GRATEFUL FORTHE CARE AND UNDERSTANDING WITH WHICH THIS CASE HAS BEEN TREATED BY YOU.
5. PLEASE INFORM GOVERNOR.
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