SECRET
4. THE NUMBER OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS REACHING HONG KONG IS ALSO RISING AS ILLUSTRATED BY THE FOLLOWING FIGURES SHOWING THE
UMBER ARRESTED ON BRITISH TERRITORY IN EACH QUARTER SINCE REPATRIATION OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WAS INTRODUCED ON 30 NOVLIBER
1974:-
DECEMBER 1974
221
YEAR 1ST QTR
2ND QTR
3RD QTR
4TH QTR
1975
196
280
464
230
1976
119
239
288
191
1977
331
360
715
404
1978
542
LABOUR DAY CELEBRATIONS
5. COMMUNIST TRADE UNIONS CELEBRATED LABOUR DAY ON A SLIGHTLY LARGER SCALE THAN IN PREVIOUS YEARS WHILE THE KUOMINTANG (KMT) TRADE UNIONS HELD THEIR NORMAL LOW-KEY CELEBRATIONS.
KUOMINTANG ACTIVITIES
6. THE INAUGURATION ON 20 MAY OF CHIANG CHING-KUO AS PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONALIST GOVERNMENT OF TAIWAN WAS CELEBRATED BY KMT MEMBERS AND SYMPATHISERS IN HONG KONG WITH DINNER PARTIES, FILMS,
VARIETY SHOWS AND A PROGRAMME OF YOUTH ACTIVITIES. THE CELEBRATIONS WHICH RECEIVED LITTLE LOCAL PUBLICITY AND WERE IGNORED BY THE GENERAL PUBLIC EVOKED NO PROTEST FROM THE COMMUNISTS. MOST KMT
ORGANISATIONS SENT DELEGATIONS TO TAIWAN TO ATTEND CELEBRATIONS
THERE WITH TRAVEL EXPENSES BEING SUBSIDISED BY THE TAIWAN
AUTHORITIES.
NEW LEFT ACTIVITIES
7. A PUBLIC MEETING WAS HELD IN VICTORIA PARK ON 14 MAY TO SUPPORT
CHINESE CLAIMS TO SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE SENKAKU ISLANDS. ORGANISED
BY THE ''PROTECT SENKAKU ISLANDS JOINT ACTION COMMITTEE’' COMPRISING ABOUT 20 NNEW LEEFT FOLLOWERS, THE RALLY ATTRACTED A CROWD OF ABOUT 600, MANY OF WHOM WERE MERE ON-LOOKERS. THE MEETING
FAILED TO AROUSE PUBLIC INTEREST OR ENTHUSIASM IN CONTRAST TO A
HIGHLY EMOTIONAL PROTEST MEETING HELD IN 1971 ON THE SAME SUBJECT
WHICH RESULTED IN 21 PEOPLE BEING ARRESTED."
EDUCATION
8. FOLLOWING A SERIOUS BREAKDOWN OF DISCIPLINE INVOLVING THE
MAJORITY OF THE PUPILS AND A GROUP OF SIXTEEN (OUT OF 40) TEACHERS AT THE PRECIOUS BLOOD GOLDEN JUBILEE SECONDARY SCHOOL,
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A GOVERNMENT