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THEY WOULD DO THEIR BEST TO TRY TO REDUCE THE FLO!.
PERHAPS THE
✰ THAT THE LOUAL INFLOW VAS DECREASINO HAD CAUSED THE MUMBER ILLEGALS TO RISE. POTH SIDES SHOULD COOPERATE,
IF THERE MERE ILLEGALS COMING INTO HONG YONG WE COULD ARREST THEN AND RETURN THEM TO CHINA. ( REMINDED HIM WE WERE ALREADY DOING THIS, BUT WHAT WAS NEEDED WAS CONTROL ON THE CHINESE SIDE.) HE AGREED THAT IT WAS OF IMPORTANCE THAT HONG KONG SHOULD REMAIN STABLE AND ECOTOXICALLY FLOURISHING. V.DERTAKE TO REPORT MY STATEMENT.
ZHANG WAS WOOLLY BUT NOT UNFRIENDLY,
HE WOULD
HIS COMENTS
DEAR OUT OUR FORECAST THAT THE CHINESE YOULD NOT APPROACH US AGAIN ON IMMIGRATION UNTIL THEY FELT THEY HAD SOME PROGRESS TO SHOW. THIS THEY NOW THINK THEY HAVE ON THE LEGAL SIDE, BUT IT SEEMS THAT THE MFA ARE IN ALMOST TOTAL IGNORANCE
WE MUST HOPE THAT WE HAVE NOW A OUT THE ILLEGAL EXODUS.
SHOCKED HIM TO SOME SORT OF RECOGNITION. I SUGGEST THAT "Y DEMARCHE BE FOLLOWED UP BY ACTION IN HONG KONG AND POSSIBLY IN LONDON AND THEREAFTER BY REPEATED REMINDERS TO THE CHINESE
AS REGANDS LEGALS, ALTHOUCH OF THE FIGURES FOR ILLEGALS.
STRICTLY TODAY'S TALK DOES NOT PREVENT US FROM TAKING UNILATERAL ACTION, IT MAKES IT PORE DIFFICULT.
CRADOCK
PILOS
HK ~GD
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Na CORTAZZA
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