BY BAC
Unclassified
From The Governor Hong Kong
SAVING TELEGRAM
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RECEIVED IN REGISTRY NO. 51.
0 2 SEP 1980
REGISTRY
PA.
To the Foreign and Commonwealth UTI100% OFFICER Telegram Number Saving 254 of 26th August 1980 Action Takon Repeated for information saving to Hong Kong Government Office London MODUK (DS11), Ukmis Geneva, Hanoi, Washington, Uknis New York, Peking, Manila, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Bangkok.
My Saving Telegram No. 248: Vietnamese Refugees.
Refugees in Hong Kong at 0900 hrs. 26th August 1980:-
(Previous Week's Figures in Brackets)
A. In UNHCR Camps
B•
Government Accomodation
And Quarantine Anchorage
Under Detention
D. Total
30,093 (30,398)
2,690 ( 2,090)
6,007 (6,005)
38,790 (38,493)
The numbers under detention represents the number of Vietnamese
Refugees who have been settled in China before coming to Hong Kong
illegally.
See $3
2. 10,084 refugees have arrived since 1st January, 1980. The increase
of 853 since 19th August is due to the arrival of fourteen small
boats.
3. UNHCR has resettled 24,830 refugees since 1st January of which 572
in the past week.
MACLEHOSE
LIMITED
SEAD
HK JGD UND
NEWS D
SIR.E-YOUDE
THIS TELEGRAM
WAS NOT
ADVANCED
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