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THE NORWICH COUNCIL OF CHURCHES
77,Lo Road, Fellesdon,
Norwich. 116 5AG.
13th.August 1983.
John 1guley,Dsq., Member of Parliament
Noriich South,
Derr hr.Foley,
I am writing to you as a member of the Executive of the
Horwich Council of Churches,and under their instructions.
Perhaps you will recall that I spoke to you after the meeting organised by th Council of Churches in the hell of St.Jon's R.C.Cathedral about the question of Vietnamese Refugees in Hong Kong.
Lot me put the facts before you again.In April and lay of this year my wife and I journeyed through China and eventually arrived in Hong Kong. While there we were taken over to Kowloon to visit the Vietnamese Rofugee Camp in the old British Army Married Quarters, called if I remember rightly the Jubilee Centre.
The Gardenir.David Smith, who comes from the North of England, tock us round and showed us what conditions were like. Unquestionably Hr.Smith hes done a great deal to alleviate the misery of the Refugees,but evenso the conditions are appalling. There were 3,000 people in the buildings, which I expect vore built for something like 40 families. The space allotted to each family was a chelf about the size of e double bed,and these were in tiers.Play groups were run by volunteers from Hong kong for the shall children, Then there was an instructional group for a number of t cenarers who had escaped from Vietnam without their parents.
Fefore we left,r. Smith pled with us to put it to our .. that Britain should rive the lead in taking some of the Refugees to this country,and then other counties night föllow suit,
I recognise that there are many problems, but som thing should be don: to save these poor people from what is virtual imprisonment as a rricon Chaplain in this country for eight years,and conditions in Fritish prisons,cven with present day over crowding are better for then in Hong Kong Refugee Coups, and there are 12,000 Refugees altogether in Jong Hong.
I trust that you will take a serious view of this matter.
Your cincerely,
དན ་ཎམྨེང་ལྟ་ཞིག་ཏུ་
(Rev.J.5.Drummond.)
have set a similar letter to r. Patrick Thompson.