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From: Commissioner of Police (DSB)
To:
Political Adviser
Ref.:
SF/404-123
HKCK 341/2
Tel.:
5-284284 Ext.204
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RECENVASE
TRY NO. ST
Date : 25th May 1981
@JUN 1931
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Vietnamese Refugees Ex-China TAM 1373-
On 8th May 1981 an unregistered wouder motorised river barge sized 12 by 3 metres entered Hong Kong with 42 Vietnamese Chinese passengers who had originally left China as four separate groups and been combined by the Macau authorities into one large group. They were given the wooden motorised river barge in lieu of the rowing boats used by each of the four groups, which were unsuited to the voyage across the Pearl River estuary to Hong Kong, and then on 8th May instructed to leave Macau and travel to Hong Kong. They were accompanied by a similar group, L/M 1314, which had also consisted of Vietnamese Chinese passengers on small boats from China, who were likewise placed on a motorised river barge, which was towed by Li 1313 to Hong Kong because of a broken engine. L/M 1314 will be the subject of a subsequent report in this series.
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The attached report contains brief accounts by the organisers of the four original groups and includes mention of rumours that Macau would grant landing rights to Vietnamese Chinese coming from China ("ex-China cases"), and of being allowed to continue their journey by militiamen as soon as their credentials as ex-China cases were established, rather than Chinese illegal emigrants.
30 The number of passengers carried from China to Macau by the four original groups was: "A", 10 persons from Jingkou, Sanshui County; "B", 13 from Dawang, Sihui County; "C", 6 from Jingkou; "D", 13 from Mafang, Sanshui County.
40 A photograph of the motorised river barge is not available, as it
sank shortly after arrival.
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