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EDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1964

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WHEN, AS A RESULT, THE TRANSFER OF REFUGEES FROM CHI MA WAN TO HEI LING CHAU BEGAN ON FEBRUARY 7, ABOUT 200 OCCUPANTS IN ONE HUT RESISTED CSD STAFF ATTEMPTS TO MOVE THEM AND AT LEAST TWO OFFICERS WERE ATTACKED.

THE HUT WAS ISOLATED, THE MOVES CONTINUED, AND THE RINGLEADERS WERE IDENTIFIED AND TRANSFERRED TO THE VICTORIA CLOSED CENTRE LATER THAT DAY.

A SEARCH MADE FOLLOWING THE TRANSFERS UNCOVERED A WIDE VARIETY OF HOME-MADE WEAPONS IN EACH OF THE CLOSED CENTRES INVOLVED.

+1 SHOULD LIKE AT THIS STAGE TO ADD THAT THE STAFF OF THE CORRECTIONAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT ACTED WITH THOROUGHLY COMMENDABLE FIRMNESS AND RESTRAINT THROUGHOUT THESE REGRETTABLE INCIDENTS, + SAID MR JEAFFRESON.

HE SAID THAT THE SEPARATION OF THE TWO GROUPS WILL CONTINUE - NORTHERNERS IN THE HEI LING CHAU CLOSED CENTRE AND SOUTHERNERS IN THE CHI MA WAN CLOSED CENTRE.

IN ADDITION THE CENTRE FOR SINGLE MALE REFUGEES ON HEI LING CHAU HAS BEEN EMPTIED AND, EXCEPT FOR IDENTIFIED TROUBLEMAKERS, THE REFUGEES PREVIOUSLY HOUSED THERE HAVE GONE TO ONE OR OTHER OF THE CLOSED CENTRES.

IN ADDITION, HE SAID, 100 REFUGEES FROM THE HEI LING CHAU TREATMENT CENTRE AND 20 FROM CHI MA WAN, IDENTIFIED AS THE INSTIGATORS OF THE DISTURBANCES OR ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN THEM HAVE BEEN TRANSFERRED TO THE VICTORIA CLOSED CENTRE WHERE THEY WILL BE UNABLE TO EXERT INFLUENCE OVER THE BEHAVIOUR OF THE VAST MAJORITY OF LAW ABIDING REFUGEES.

UPON COMPLETION OF INVESTIGATIONS, THE POLICE MAY LAY CHARGES AGAINST SOME OF THOSE INVOLVED IN THE DISTURBANCES, MR JEAFFRESON SAID.

NO BLOOD SHORTAGE FOR ACUTE SURGERY

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THONG

THERE HAD NEVER BEEN ANY OCCASION WHEN ACUTE AND EMERGENCY OPERATIONS HAD TO BE RESCHEDULED OR DELAYED BECAUSE OF BLOOD SHORTAGE. THE DIRECTOR OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH SERVICES, DR THE HON K.L. THONG, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY.

HE WAS REPLYING TO A QUESTION BY THE HON LYDIA DUNN WHO ASKED WHETHER THERE WAS A SHORTAGE OF BLOOD FOR TRANSFUSIONS, RESULTING IN SOME SURGICAL OPERATIONS BEING DELAYED.

DR THONG SAID THAT FOR SCHEDULED OR NON-EMERGENCY CASES, HAD ALSO BEEN POSSIBLE TO CARRY OUT OPERATIONS ACCORDING THE TIMES AND THE SCHEDULES.

/+HOWEVER, HER.