IMMEDIATE
GPS 400
CYPHER/CAT A
FM HONG KONG 190701Z
CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL
RECEIVED IN. REGISTRY NO.52
19 JUL 1974
1KILIY/5
74
OF COPY
(35)
LAST
(126)
REF.
TO IMMEDIATE FCO TELNO 766 OF 19 JULY/INFO PRIORITY SAIGON,
YOUR TELEGRAM NO 648.
658
50
RETURN OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TO SOUTH VIETNAM.
WE HAVE NOT SO FAR RECEIVED COPIES OF CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN MR BEN FORD AND LORD GORONWY-ROBERTS, AS DISTINCT FROM CORRESPONDENCE ATTACHED TO CROWSON'S LETTER TO DONALD OF 28 JUNE AND LORD GORONWY- ROBERTS ANSWERS OF 8 AND 9 JULY TO MESSRS JOHNSON AND MACLENNAN.
2. ACTUAL INCIDENT ON NIGHT 16/17 JUNE WAS VERY BRIEFLY REPORTED
JUNE IN OUR TELEGRAM NO 662 OF 17 JULY. ACCORDING TO SUBSEQUENT MORE DETAILED REPORTS, CROWD OF ABOUT 50 CLAIMING TO BE RELATIVES OF
THOSE BEING RETURNED TO SOUTH VIETNAM EVENTUALLY GREW TO ABOUT 150
INCLUDING MEMBERS OF NEW LEFT TROTSKYIST STUDENT GROUPS.
AS DEMONSTRATION DEVELOPED, THERE WERE MINOR CLASHES WITH POLICE. LATER DURING NIGHT A NUMBER OF DEMONSTRATORS BROKE AWAY FROM MAIN GROUP AND SUCCEEDED IN GAINING ACCESS THROUGH CARGO HANDLING AREA TO THE RESTRICTED AREA OF THE AIRPORT, THEY WERE ACCOMPANIED BY A GROUP OF JOURNALISTS. AFTER ATTEMPTS HAD BEEN MADE BY DEMONSTRATORS TO ENTER AND TO DAMAGE THE TWO AIR VIETNAM AIRCRAFT, POLICE ARRESTED A TOTAL OF 33 PERSONS ON THE APRON FOR ENTERING A RESTRICTED AREA WITHOUT THE PERMISSION OF THE DIRECTOR OF CIVIL AVIATION. OF THOSE ARRESTED ELEVEN WERE MEMBERS OF THE PRESS AND BROADCASTING SERVICES. FOLLOWING THE CLEARING OF THE RESTRICTED AREA BY THE POLICE THE AIRCRAFT DEPARTED AND THE CROWD DISPERSED
WITHOUT FURTHER INCIDENT.
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