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relate to five unsuccessful escape attempts between Sep 76 and Jul 77. The details are as follows:
Detention
Detainees
Escape attempt
No of
Location
Caught
Repat
Total
Days
in CPR from HK
Additional Punishments
Sep 1976
3 in 2
SHENCHUAN
•.600
50
650
Put to struggle
5
CHANGMUT OU
500
100
600
and beaten by
HAIFENG
200
6
206
Militia members
at home
Production
Brigade. Fined
RMB 100 (HK
1
dollars 256)
Dec 1976
6
SHENCHUAN
500
40
540
Feb 1977
50
3-4
5
CHANGMUTOU
400
35
435
Nil
HAIFENG
160
7
167
SHENCHUAN
300.
55
355
CHANGMUTOU
450
50
500
Mil
2
HAIFENG
170
6
176
3
KUNG PING
35
Apr 1977
8
SHENCHUAN
1003
35
a 3 2
9
2
CHANGMUTOU
HAIFENG
009 ·
45
254
37
1038
645
Nil
100
3
103
KUNGPING
30
4
34
Jul 1977
27
TANSHUT
90
HUIYANG
250
32
HAIFENG
175
KUNGPING
40
26 50 00
92
Put to struggle.
256
at PB for three
180
days and home
8
48.
and furniture
confiscated
34.
Accepting that the figures may not be entirely accurate they' do nonetheless provide a further basis for a rough comparison between numbers caught in CHINA and numbers repatriated. The ratio indicated by this report is twelve arrests in CHINA to every ope repatriated. Taking the 1977 repatriation figure at 1700 a 1:12 ratio would put the Chinese arrest figure at 20,400.
35. In INTSUM 13/77 we found difficulty in trying to reconcile the numbers then believed involved annually in illegal emigration, with the widespread official concern and increased deterrent measures being employed, in KWANGTUNG Province. On the basis of 20,400 possible arrests in CHINA during 1977 the numbers involved
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