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The figure includes 506 persons (compared with 534 last month) claiming to have come from China and 26 (compared with 37 last month) from Macao.

15.

Since 1962, the Registration of Persons Office has registered a total of 322,713 persons who claimed to have entered Hong Kong illegally from various sources, primarily China. The total since January 1970 is 103,958 of whom 90,883 claimed to have come from China and 5,884 from Macao. The true figure of illegal immigrants from China is somewhat lower and the true figure of Macao somewhat higher, because of attempts to conceal the true place of origin on registration to avoid repatriation. Separate statistics of confirmed place of origin are shown in para 10 for China, and para 13 for Macao.

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The attached appendices BH give details of arrests of illegal immigrants from China and Macao during February.

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Distribution list

Report and appendix A

S for H

SNT

PA

CP (DSB)

CP (Operations)

SLO

HSI (2)

C for C & S

PS, Government House

As Cartar

A J Carter

for Director of Immigration

Report and all appendices

DPC/M

ICAC (Attn: Ops Dept)

GIS

D

DD

Report and appendices A-B

PIO(1)

PIO(C)

S for S

APLOCI

APA (4) (Attn: Sacy to APA)

CIO(GI

D of H

CIO(OR)

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