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REGISTRY No. 14 JUN 1975
16 MAY 1975
FM HONG KONG 150930Z
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TO PRIORITY BONN TELEGRAM NUMBER 1 OF 15 MAY AND TO ROME INFO PRIORITY F C 0, WASHINGTON, ROUTINE SINGAPORE (SAIGON UNIT), OTTAWA, UKMIS NEW YORK AND CANBERRA.
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F C O TELEGRAM NO 155 TO DUBLIN OF 10 MAY: VIETNAMESE WOR REFUGEES.
WE HAVE BEEN BRIEFING E E C MISSIONS ON THE PROBLEMS CAUSED TO US BY THE PRESENCE OF NEARLY 4,000 REFUGEES FROM SOUTH VIETNAM
IN HONG KONG. OUR MAIN CONCERN IS TO FIND PERMANENT HOMES ELSEWHERE FOR THESE REFUGEES. ONLY SOME 100 HAVE SO FAR BEEN MOVED ON TO EITHER CANADA OR GUAM AND WE STILL HAVE A FORMIDABLE TASK OF RESETTLEMENT AHEAD.
2. GERMAN CONSUL-GENERAL HAS BEEN TOLD IN OUR BRIEFING THAT 71 OF THE VIETNAMESE REFUGEES NOW HERE CLAIM TO HAVE CONNECTIONS OF SOME KIND WITH THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY AND THAT AT LEAST 33 (NOT NECESSARILY THOSE WHO HAVE CONNECTIONS WITH GERMANY OR EXPRESSING A FIRST PREFERENCE) HAVE SAID THAT THEY WOULD BE GLAD TO SETTLE IN GERMANY IF THIS IS POSSIBLE.
3. THE VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE WEST GERMAN PARLIAMENT, HERR SCHMIDT FALKENSTEIN, HAS RECENTLY TOURED REFUGEE CAMPS IN HONG KONG AND SHOWN SYMPATHETIC INTEREST IN OUR PROBLEMS OF RESETTLEMENT.
4. GERMAN CONSULATE-GENERAL WILL HELP OUR IMMIGRATION AUTHORITIES TO PROBE FURTHER THE CLAIMS TO GERMAN CONNECTIONS AND WE ARE HOPING THAT AS A RESULT OF THIS EXERCISE WEST GERMANY MAY BE WILLING TO
ACCEPT SOME.
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