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speaking note (attached), emphasising our disappointment. at the continued high level Not only were numbers high, but it was clear from earlier reductions that it was possible for measures to be token to bring them down, downward trend from January to May had not been as sharp as we would have liked, but it was in the right direction. Since then there had, frankly, been no progress and nothing left us with any grounds for optimism about the way The
Mr Tan problem was being rackled on the Chinese side. said that our concern had already been made clear to Canton and Peking. lie gave no assurance that the downward trend would be resumed and gave the impression that he was embarrassed at having no counter-argument to present, except the difficulty for local officials of cenying people who had good grounds for doing so, the opportunity to
'visit' Hong Kong. I said we would be content to have ary number of visitors as long as they returned. was no sign that this was happening, nor any indication that experimental procedures were being tried on the Chinese side to sort out those genuinely intending to visit from those wishing to settle in Hong Kong. It was impossible for rational planning of future transport, housing, education and other policies to be made with an inflow running, when illegals were included, at up to 4 or 500 per day.
Safery of Aircraft at Kai Tak
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Mr Ten referred to the earlier information which he had given me (and which I had passed to CAD) about a group of officials who were visiting Hong Kong because of their concern at a number of recent hoaxes. He gave the following details of the delegation, who had already been in touch with Kai Tak through Jardines:
Duan Jincheng
(3008/6855/1004)
Head of Security Department of CAAC
Jiao Chun
(3542/4783)
Adviser, Security Department CAAC
Ai Zhizhong
(5337/1807/1813)
Chief of Security Section of the Canton Management
Bureau of CAAC
Wu Ming
(0702/3046)
Vice-Chief of Security Section of the Carton Management
Bureau of CAAC
Road Traffic across Man Kam To
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Mr Tan referred to the earlier visit by officials from
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