SALAHM
RESTRICTED
Kaufman
8
Blaker
Grande
I.
EMIGRATION FROM HONG KONG
1. Need to face up to the problem
No intention of mininsing
:b.
Clearly we must face up squarely to the problem. That is why we welcome the establishment by the Hong Kong Government of a special task force to study the extent of the problem. At the same time- I do not believe that the present levels of emigration are a cause for
alarm.
At the same
Time
Some emigrants return
(response to recent advertisements encouraging).
Hong Kong is spills
glenishing the stoich of
graduates and trained persoanel
numbers more than compensalin for those who leave,
these numbers