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CONFIDENTIAL

CONFIDENTIAL

FM HONG KONG 040745Z DEC 78

TO IMMEDIATE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE LONDON

TELNO.1460 OF 4 DECEMBER,

INFO F.C.0, PEKING.

FOR BRAY FROM BARNES

MY TELNO.1383 TO F.C.0 (REPEATED TO YOU) :

150

Dee 156

HKK 341/1

RECEIVED

DESE

INDEX

No

4 DEC 1973

2

153

3.51

MY

IMMIGRATION FROM CHINA.

1. WE UNDERSTAND THAT DEREK DAVIES OF THE F.5. ECONOMIC REVIEW HAS PROVIDED MATERIAL ON LEGAL AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION FOR THE B.B.C TV PROGRAMME PANORAMA TO BE SHOWN TONIGHT IN U.K.

2. MY TEL UNDER REF PROVIDED THE FIGURES FOR LEGAL IMMIGRATION ONLY IN 1978 UP TO THE END OF OCTOBER. YOU MAY THEREFORE FIND IT USEFUL TO HAVE THE MOST RECENT FIGURES FOR BOTH LEGAL AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION FROM CHINA IN 1978 UP TO THE END OF NOVEMBER,

AS FOLLOWS:

(A) LEGAL. 60,195 (26,449 DURING THE WHOLE OF 1977).

(B)

ILLEGAL. 7,400 ARRESTED AND 7,064 REPATRIATED, ON THE PRESENT ARRESTED/EVASION PATIO OF 1:4 THIS REPRESENTS ABOUT 30,000 GETTING THROUGH TO REMAIN IN HONG KONG. NUMBER OF ARRESTS FOR 1977 WAS 1,815.

THE TOTAL

3. FOR THE FIRST THREE DAYS OF DECEMBER 1,049 LEGALS ARRIVED AND 129 ILLEGALS WERE ARRESTED.

MACLEHOSE

FILES

HK & GD

(6)

COPIES TO

HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE

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