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DESKEY PEKING 19040OZ
FM HONG KONG 180344Z JUN 81
TO IMMEDIATE F C O
TELEGRAM NUMBER 603 OF 13 JUNE
AND TO IMMEDIATE PEKING
INFO PRIORITY UKMIS GENEVA, LISBON
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INFO ROUTINE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE LONDON
32 YOUR TELNO 317 TO PEKING (NOT TO ALL): VIETNAMESE REFUGEES FROM
CHINA.
IN THE PAST 43 HOURS SOME 450 MORE EX-CHINA REFUGEES HAVE ARRIVED IN 14 BOATS, MOST APPEAR TO HAVE COME FROM MACAU, BUT INITIAL INDICATIONS ARE THAT THESE ARRIVED THERE VERY RECENTLY AS
PART OF THE CONTINUING OUTFLOW FROM CHINA RATHER THAN BEING FROM
THE BACK-LOG IN MACAU.
2. SOME HAVE BEEN TOWED TOWARDS HONG KONG BY MACAU POLICE LAUNCHES.
WE RAISED THIS YESTERDAY WITH THE PORTUGUESE CONSUL-GENERAL WHO
LATER SAID THIS WAS NOT IN LINE WITH STANDING INSTRUCTIONS AND THAT THE MACAU GOVERNMENT VERE TAKING ACTION TO STOP THIS. (LATE
YESTERDAY AFTERNOON A LAUNCH WAS SEEN TOWING 2 BOATS BACK TOWARDS
MACAU). A FURTHER GROUP OF BOATS WITH SOME 500 REFUGEES HAS BEEN SEEN HEADING HERE (BUT NOT UNDER TOW) THIS MORNING.
3. ACCORDING TO THE UNHCR MACAU OFFICE, APOUT 6,100 EX-CHINA
REFUGEES ARRIVED IN MACAU BETWEEN 15 MAY AND 15 JUNE. IN ADDITION THERE ARE 1,600 REFUGEES IN THE UNHCR CAMP. MOST ARE PROBABLY DIRECT ARRIVALS, BUT SOME ARE UNDOUBTEDLY EX-CHINA BUT NOT
PROPERLY SCREENED WHEN THEY ARRIVED LAST YEAR.
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4. THE MAIN DEPARTURE POINTS WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO IDENTIFY SO FAR
OF RECENT BOATS HAVE BEEN FARMS IN DAWANG (8 BOATS), JINGKOU (3), MAFANG (2) ALL IN THE AREA NEAR THE JUNCTION OF THE NORTH AND
WEST RIVERS IN GUANGDONG. APRIL AND MAY ARRIVALS WERE ALSO FROM THIS AREA, BUT WITH A FEW FROM PINGSHA (NEAR MACAU).
5. RECENT ARRIVALS TELL US THAT THEY HAVE USUALLY MET PUBLIC
SECURITY OR LOCAL MILITIA BUT BEEN ALLOWED TO PROCEED ONCE IT IS
CLEAR THEY ARE NOT STANDARD ILLEGAL EMIGRANTS OR SMUGGLERS.
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HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE
LONDON
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