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tness A Colony back to normal

THE need for Emergency Regulation 31, we hope, will never arise again, just as we hope that Hongkong will never have a repetition of the 1967 disturbances. The repeal of the controversial, highly unpopular regulation, which empowers detention without trial, is confirmation that Hongkong is back to normal.

Time will tell whether the Government's belated but wise decision to remove the blot on the Colony's image will lead to any drastic change for the better in relations with China, but there is this prospect now that all the detainees are released..

Perhaps the visit of Britain's Lord Shepherd did some good after all. The repeal of the regulation, coming so soon after the British Minister's visit, gives reason to suspect that Lord Shepherd had something to do with it.

There is also the possibility that the protests by the Reform Club in December 1967 through Labour M.P. John Rankin in the House of Commons, and the fierce attacks on the regulation by the Hongkong Branch of Justice which presented a report for the Minister of Commonwealth and Foreign Affairs, prepared the way for the repeal.

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Hongkong did not have a more unwelcome regulation which virtually made every peace-loving citizen of Hongkong a potential criminal. It is true that because the security of the Colony was threatened, the regulation was necessary. But what rankled many minds was the thought that even when no further threat to security existed, the regulation still existed.

As the chairman of the Bar Association, Mr. Gerald de Basto has said, his first reaction to the repeal was il sense of relief. If unfortunate exceptional circumstances force another set oj emergency regulations, legislature should provide safeguards against any errors of judgment on the part of the

administration.

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Mr.

Leo described the world as "bi-polar" world in which only two powers, the United States and Russia, had the capacity to destroy each other and the rest of mankind.

"It is a problem that has arisen as result of man's inventiveness and ingenious creative capacity, and leaves the lesser nations with a great problem.

Change

"It would be foglish for us living in the Paci fic not to recognise that moods change.

"The mood of the USA is of global interest with complete confi- dence. has the wealth and technology to in- fluenge the rest of the world.

"But what if the pen- Aulum swung the other

men?" he asked.

And this was a tint in which Russia/wi increasing its range c nuclear weapony.

"I would like t believe that Between th competing forces of th major powers, Singi pore, perhaps in consoj with its neighbours an Australia and New Zet land, and maybe Japar can find some area i Which there could b.

relative security withou being fully committe at the drop of the firs bomb," he said.

This is what an national government e any nation must thin about,'

Mr. Le said ever age has its set of pre blems but "qur generi tion is having More tha its fair share of trial and tribulations.'

"Historians will\te us there were very fey

The plight of UK's immigrants

THOUSANDS of

Britain's

immigrant

families are crammed into single rooms often with eight families to a house, according to a recent British govern- ment survey.

But an increasing number of immigrants, anxious to merge into the British way of life, are buying their own homes, promoting their own businesses or rising to positions of responsibility in their jobs.

The survey is based On a sample 10 per cent of Immigrants

monwealth countries Australia, Canada and New Zealand from the "'new' Commonwealth

which

rest,

and

in the the

Takes including

main sources. of coloured immigrants, India, Pakistan and the West Indies.

The findings are published three years

can only be a guide- line.

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The survey show there were $53,000 "new" Commonwealth immigrants and 125.000 of the "old" here in 1906,

The Census dis- ciosedi

Central London is

after the investigation, the most popular place to live preferred by A government.42 per cent of "new" spokesman spokesman explained Conungnyc H immmni-

grants.

"The reason for thei? The average | family time lag is that thes Has three children or things take such a long under. Only 11,500 time to prepare

"OkÎ"""65=270,000 have

from the "old" Com, evaluate. Obviously re

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Eighty-five per cen the "new" Com monwealth men wer

Jully

only

employed ane

only three per, cen were supported by the country.

Many more Indian. than Pakistanis

West Indians are "white collar" workers.

West Indians, on the whole, like to work ot buses and trains, () mall deliveries.

Pakistanis pick tex Mes: 10,000 in the mills compared with only $,000 Indians and 2,000 West Indians Engineering is popula with all three.

GLENN GOODEY