WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1990
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IMPORTANT TO CONTROL SMUGGLING BETWEEN HK AND CHINA
* * * *
TOLD NOW TO SMUGGLING THE MARINE
STRACHAN, THE ACTING SECRETARY FOR SECURITY, THE HON IAN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY). IT WAS IMPORTANT
AND LOOK TO THE FUTURE
PARTICULARLY TO THE
OF CONTROL AT THE ROOT OF BETWEEN HONG KONG AND CHINA, WHICH WAS INCIDENT ON MAY 3.
WHEN HE SAID THAT WE ALL REGRETTED THAT THE INCIDENT OCCURRED,
MARTIN LEE ON SPEAKING IN THE DEBATE ON THE MOTION MOVED BY THE HON ALLEGED SMUGGLING OF CARS TO CHINA.
SHUM
CHUNG,
WHEN WHEN UNDERLINE THE SMUGGLERS, MR
OFF "THE INCIDENT ON THE EVENING OF JUNE 4 THREE POLICE CONSTABLES WERE INJURED, AND ONE SERIOUSLY INJURED, A SMUGGLING BOAT RAMMED A POLICE CRAFT, ONLY SERVES TO DETERMINATION OF THIS ADMINISTRATION TO STRIKE AT THE STRACHAN SAID.
STATEMENT MR STRACHAN SAID HE HAD MADE A FULL
THE ONLY THE FACTS OF THE CASE THREE WEEKS AGO AND
MR LEE'S
WAS QUESTION, WOULD ADD, IN RESPONSE TO POLICE VESSELS DID NOT ENTER INTO CHINESE WATERS.
THE
**
ON
TO COUNCIL POINT WHICH HE THAT HONG KONG
INCIDENT,
HE
SAID WHICH
REFERRING TO PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN DURING THIS ISSUE WAS ON ITS WAY TO SETTLEMENT AND HE SAW NO ADVANTAGE WOULD BE GAINED BY MAKING THEM PUBLIC.
THE
MR STRACHAN SAID
ON MAY 30 WAS ΤΟ WHICH HAPPILY WAS
CLARIFYING POINTS RAISED IN THE DEBATE,
MEETING PRIMARY OBJECTIVE OF THE BORDER LIAISON SECURE THE RELEASE OF THE FIVE HONG KONG CREWMEN, ACHIEVED.
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"THE TWO SIDES ALSO AGREED
INCREASE CROSS-BORDER LIAISON SUCH AN AND CO-OPERATION TO CONTROL SMUGGLING AND TRY TO ENSURE THAT INCIDENT DOES NOT HAPPEN AGAIN.
THAT THERE WAS THE CREWMEN,
**I MUST EMPHASISE, AND I DO SO MOST STRONGLY, NO QUESTION OF ANY SECRET DEAL TO OBTAIN THE RELEASE OF MR STRACHAN SAID.
ΤΟ THE
THREE
STOLEN CARS
CONFISCATED
BY THE
CHINESE THROUGH
AS AUTHORITIES, MR STRACHAN SAID THE GOVERNMENT WOULD CONTINUE, THE NORMAL CHANNELS, TO SEEK THEIR RETURN TO HONG KONG.
"THEY
REPRESENT
IMPORTANT
EVIDENCE
ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH THIS INCIDENT,
AGAINST HE SAID.
THOSE
ALREADY
NOTING THAT THERE HAD
HAD BEEN
REEN CREWMEN
IN SOME WAY GOVERNMENT FROM SPEAKING TO THE PRESS. NOT TRUE".
SUGGESTIONS PREVENTED
MR
THAT THE
THE HONG BY
POLICE OR SAID: STRACHAN
"THIS
KONG
THE IS
RIGHT OF FREE
EXPRESSION,
"ALL PEOPLE IN HONG KONG HAVE THE AND IT IS ENTIRELY UP TO THEM WHETHER OR NOT THEY EXERCISE THAT RIGHT.
/"THROUGHOUT THEIR