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the penultimate paragraph of my letter of 2 August.
flood of boat people starts again, or there is real diffi-
culty over the Indonesian ban (on which the GCBS has just
written to the FCO), so that there is a serious risk of
prolonged inconvenience and financial loss to British
shipping, then Ministers will clearly have to consider the
matter again.
6.
Perhaps I could add that there was never any
intention to imply in my letter of 2 August that' queue-
Jumpers' might have to be abandoned. Like you we attach
the highest importance to masters obeying the requiement
to rescue,life at sea. But the problem of what to do with
refugees once rescued is a worrying one, given that our
first concern since the Geneva meeting should be to help
clear the refugee camps in Hong Kong.
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