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stated that ther left Th, then tM little food,

ater or fucl

in the home they could be rescued up the US Seventh Pleet. Knowledge of the whoreslouts of the Flant me obtained from

The overscar radio bro.../erete or market place pocvip, container ship MPIA L'ARRY YLE (irect 4 an aircraft from the Fleet.

5.

the refugee boat by

Planning by Overseas Chinese shipping syndicates to engage in the refuges trase has stopped folicing the oratorium and strong police action in Pong Kong and Singapore. the last ship involved rus the "MTIM, a "aivanoso orned Panamanian ship of 2,150 tons thach wer forbed to sail without refugees from

Money agents in Hong Kong no longer Vietnam, in late June.

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handle escape money on behalf of people in Vietnam.

6.

No refugees have left Northern Vietnam by boat directly for Hong Kong since the moratorium but Chinese officials allege that Vietnam has continued to truck the remainder of her ethnic Chinese population in the north to the land border and China claims to have expel them in their hundreds every day. taken in excess of 250,000 ethnic Chinese plus a number of ethnic Vietnamese and border nationalitics.

The majority of these have been resettled on Overseas or State farms in different provinces. Some of these farms are barely self-sufficient, and many refugees soon become dissatisfied with conditions. They try to escape by boat to Hong Kong which they know from Vietnamese refugee gossip accepts all refugees for eventual resettlement oversces and permits them to work while they are waiting. The remainder are living on their boats along the Chinese coast and gradually making their way to Hong Kong with the knowledge of the Chinese authorities. Many pay Chinese fishing junks for a tor to Macau or Hong Keng waters and often distribute their passenger overload onto the toring vessel to avoid sinking. The two areas for departure from China are the port of Bei Hau in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and the farm

It is possible of Ping Sha, Doumen County, Guangdong Province.

that some may come from Fujian Province when the monsoon is more favourable in late October.

Accossement

It is assessed that Vietnam vill hold to her moratorium orly so long as she considers it to be in

She will probably link the way the her om interest. Western nationa treat the UII Soven Point progranne with any decision to rosene the cxodur.

2.

Othaic Vietnamese vill continue to leave

Vietnam clandestinely either for Hong Kong or so as

/to be shipwrecked

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