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The Prime Minister has asked me to thank you for
your letter of 24 July, with which you enclosed your
correspondence about Indo-Chinese refugees with:
Professor Potts of Lancaster University.. I have been asked to reply on' the. Prime Minister's behalf.
You correctly pointed out. to Professor Potts,
The
that. Hong Kong is bursting at the seams.
millions of. Chinese' who have come there since the war
have been assimilated into the community.
The
200,000 more recent arrivals have placed a heavy
additional burden on Hong Kong's social development
plans. Nevertheless Hong Kong has sinee-4975
additionally accepted 14,000 people from Indo-China for
settlement since 1975. These have either been
dependents of permanent residents of Hong Kong, or
were rescued at sea by Hong Kong-registered ships;
The Hong Kong Government continues to accept for
permanent settlement refugees who fall into these two
categories; but to take another 60,000 who do not, would be difficult a dud.
It was out of concern for Hong Kong's predicament that the Government has decided to take from