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FM HONG KONG 041800Z DEC 78
TO PRIORITY FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
TELNO.1388 OF 4 DECEMBER,
INFO PRIORITY PEKING,
ROUTINE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE LONDON!
ISI
M.I.P.T: IMMIGRATION FROM CHINA.
THE NUMBERS FOR NOVEMBER WERE AS FOLLOWS.
HKK 341/1
Di
INDEX
No
4 DEC173
COMPARISON WITH
THE FIGURE FOR THE PREVIOUS MONTH AND FOR NOVEMBER 1977 FOLLOW
IN BRACKETS:
51
# RY
ar
(1)
TOTAL: 9946 (8485: 2466).
(11) HOLDING ONWARD VISAS : 1840 (526: N/A).
111) PASSPORT HOLDERS WITHOUT ONWARD VISAS : 3496 (3340: 217).
(IV) ILLEGALS REPATRIATED : 2019 (1414: 121).
2. BY COMPARISON, THE HIGHEST MONTHLY TOTAL IN 1973, WHICH SAW
THE LAST MAJOR RISE IN NUMBERS, WAS 7205 IN SEPTEMBER 1973.
MACLEHOSE
FILES
HK & GD (6)
FED
MVD
PUSD
PS/LORD GORONWY ROBERTS
MR CORTAZZI
MR MURRAY
COPIES TO
HONG KONG. GOVERNMENT OFFICE
6 GRAFTON STREET, WI
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