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2. BACUIA HDD NOT.
ccording to the VIHC.. the mumber of refugees han increased to 1,500 and would prefer the last sentence to rend: "t present, there are about 1,500 refugees who have not been found permanent honey. Thero may well be more on the way. We will come under particular pressure to accept responsibility for any who are rescued by registered ships.
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It is not quite correct to say that liong Kong has a "commitment" to accept sone 30,000 legal immigrants annually from China. is no commitment on Hong Kong's part but there is a steady flow of There immigrants, both legal and illegal, from China. the number of legal immigrants is currently running; at round 50-60
The figure for a day, ie approximately 20,000 a year in the neture of things, there is no reliable figure for the number of ille ui who enter Hong Long.
Agrants In November 1974 the Hougong authorities reinstituted the policy, which had been in abeyance for a number of years, of returning illegal immigrants to China (because the flow of immigrants from Chins had reached an intolerably high level) and
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