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FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
OUR REF GW 102 1138 3.10.78
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FOLLOWING SENT THIS MORNING TO UN HIGH COMMISSION FOR REFUGEES
FROM DENHOLM SHIP MANAGEMENT LTD GLASGOW
**WELLPARK''
REFERENCE OUR VARIOUS TELEX MESSAGES OF YESTERDAY CULMINATING WITH ADVICE THAT A TOTAL OF 343 REFUGEES ARE ONBOARD 'WELLPARK' '
HAVE RECEIVED FURTHER CABLE FROM MASTER ADVISING THAT THIS TOTAL CONSIST OF 187 ADULTS AND 156 CHILDREN UNDER AGE OF 16 YEARS. ALL REFUGEES SUFFERING FROM EXHAUSTION AND LACK OF FOOD/WATER.
MASTER UNDERSTANDS FROM ENGLISH SPEAKING REFUGEES THAT A FLOTILLA OF 3 CRAFTS SET OUT FROM SAIGON AREA APPROXIMATELY FIVE DAYS P
IOR TO PICK UP BY WELLPARK. APPROXIMATELY THREE DAYS PRIOR TO PICK UP TWO OF CRAFT SANK AND PERSONNEL TRANSFERRED TO REMAINING CRAFT WHICH ABOUT 60 FEET LONG. WELLPARK FOUND THIS REMAINING CRAFT UNSEAWORTHY WITH NO MEANS OF STEERING AND NO POWER AND NO FOOD OR WATER ONBOARD.
HAVE ADVISED SHIPS AGENTS IN TAIWAN OF PICK UP OF REFUGEES, THEY HAVE ADVISED AS FOLLOWS
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SS' WELLPARK RYTLX GWBS 2/10 WE CONTACTED TAIWAN GARRISON COMMAND TAIPEI CONCERNING DISPOSITION OF APPROXIMATELY RESCUED 240 VIETNAMESE REFUGES BUT THEY ADVISED FOLLOWING (A) REFUGES RESCUED BY FOREIGN VESSEL SHOULD BE DEALT WITH BY SHIPS OWNERS OR SHIPOWNERS GOVERNEMT NOT ACCEPTABLE SY CHINESE GOVERNMENT (B) AS VESSEL WILL PASS BY HONGKONG THEY SUGGEST THESE REFUGES BE DISEMBARKED HONGKONG BEFORE VESSEL PROCEEDS KAOHSIUNG. OTHERWISE THEY MIGHT REFUSE YOUR VESSEL TO BE DRYDOCKED AT KAOHSIUNG. MEANTIME PLEASE ASK YOUR MASTER TO CABLE US INFORMATION CONCERNING EXACT NUMBER OF REFUGES NUMBER OF MEN, NUMBER OF WOMEN OR NUMBER OF CHILDREN AND THEIR AGES, WHICH ARE REQUIRED BY TGC TAIPEI. INQUITE
1. AGENTS IN TAIWAN ARE JARDINE MATHESON AND CO 36 KWEI TEN STREET POBOX 81 TAIPEI.
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