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support in this from the communist newspaper Wen Wei Bao.
The President, Vice-President and two other members of the
UK Federation of Hong Kong students returned to Hong Kong
in March to liaise with local student bodies and community
organisations. FUNG Kim Kea, the President, is a former
member of a leading pressure group, the Society for Community Organisation, and is thought likely to seek assistance from this body, as well as from the Hong Kong Federation of
Students.
IMMIGRATION
From China
30.
A total of 4625 legal immigrants arrived from China
without onward travel documents, a daily average of 149.
31.
The downward trend in illegal immigration which has
been taking place since the change in the "reached base" policy
last October has ceased. In March total arrests on first
arrival amounted to 965, a daily average of 31, as compared
with a daily figure of 15 in February. But towards the end
of the month the daily figures were rising well above this
level.
32.
The reasons for the increase are the prevalence of
rumours in the border areas that the Hong Kong Government is
to re-introduce the "reached base" policy and grant a new
amnesty; the activities of the escape syndicates (including possibly one which organises departures by goods train from
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