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Enclosure I (Cont'd)

(III)

Latest position (as at 0900 hours on 20.9.79) (For detailed breakdown, see

(a)

Enclosure IA)

Under UNHCR care

(b)

(Sham Shui Po, Jubilee Buildings, Kai Tak East, Hong Kong Red Cross Temporary Transit Centre) Awaiting acceptance by UNHCR in Government detention

centres

35.562

3,548

(Prisons, Ma Tau Wei, and Argyle Street)

(c)

Awaiting acceptance by UNHCR in Government-run open

23,862

camps

(Tuen Mun Camps 1 and 2, Chi Ma Wan, Cape

Collinson and Argyle Camp 4)

(d)

Awaiting transfer to Government-run open camps/

Government detention centres/UNHCR camps (Government Dockyard)

4,013

(e)

Undergoing quarantine procedure at Western Quarantine

Anchorage

Nil

Total: 66,985

(IV)

same as

Note 6: If the following figure is added back to the above total,

the total number presently in Hong Kong is 66,991 that in Enclosure IA :-

(a) + (b) + (c) + (d) + (e) 66,985

plus Macao

6

66,991

Departures (Countries of resettlement from 1.1.79 to 20.9.79)

(a) USA (including 495 formerly housed in Macao)

(b)

Canada

(c)

UK (Including 924 ex-Sibonga)

(d)

W. Germany

(e)

Norway

(f)

Hong Kong

(8)

Switzerland (including 9 formerly housed in Macao)

(b)

Netherlands

(i)

Denmark

(j)

Australia

(k)

France

(1)

New Zealand

(m)

Italy

(n)

Spain

(0)

China

(p)

Sweden

(q)

Ireland

5,530 2,588

1,290

891

29

46

50

77

53

268

86

2

35

HARS

1

1

109

(r)

Vietnam (voluntary repatriation)

4

(s)

Japan

1

(t)

New Caledonia

29

(u)

Argentina

(v)

Ivory Coast

23

11.125