TNAG-0905-FCO40-1115-Immigration-from-China-to-Hong-Kong-1979 — Page 32

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Kong box

comes within yards of the coastline of mainland

China. Get China claims

a

12 mile teritorial sea.

And Deep Bay is less than 12 miles wide. So, the RN

for alleging that we were

operating in the Bay could give the Chinese an excuse

invading her teritorial sea. ance of Deep Bay is that it belies its name;

The importance

it is shallow, and is one

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the favourite routes for

the

Swimmers (Chinese for wat-backs) to enter Hong Kong, illegally. Captain. in Charge, Hong Kong would like

to use

his hovercraft in Deep Bay to reduce incidence of illegals entering by that route. Sino-UK relations apart, if I am an intending Chinese illegal cmmigrant anested in Deep Bay, could I claim that

I was

lawfully swemining in my own territorial wares

and raise a now if I were

if I were apprehended by the RN and

returned to the maine and for punishment?

on which I should welcome

4.

So the first point

first point on which

advice is whether we

5.

can relax FLOO to permit

anti illegal reimigrant patrols in Deep Bay.

Feo

The second problem is LANTAU ISLAND. The Western boundary of Hong Kong conesponds with the West coast of the island. In the waters outside