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the penultimate paragraph of my letter of 2 August.

flood of boat people starts again, or there is real diffi-

culty over the Indonesian ban (on which the GCBS has just

written to the FCO), so that there is a serious risk of

prolonged inconvenience and financial loss to British

shipping, then Ministers will clearly have to consider the

matter again.

6.

Perhaps I could add that there was never any

intention to imply in my letter of 2 August that' queue-

Jumpers' might have to be abandoned. Like you we attach

the highest importance to masters obeying the requiement

to rescue,life at sea. But the problem of what to do with

refugees once rescued is a worrying one, given that our

first concern since the Geneva meeting should be to help

clear the refugee camps in Hong Kong.

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