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KMT
22.
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In furtherance of the KMT's policy of hampering joint ventures with China (para 22, June 1980 Report) a KMT trade union, the Cotton Industrial Workers General Union, has written to the Chief Secretary drawing attention to the implications for the local cotton industry and local land prices of joint ventures overseas (China is not specified) and to the need for increased penalties for false labelling of goods manufactured in other countries (again, China is not specified). The Union's contact in the UK is now identified as the National Union of Hosiery and Knitwear Workers, whose President visited Hong Kong in January and undertook to raise the question of false labelling
with the UK Government.
Sov Bloc
23.
After a tour of exactly one year, two Soviet Marine Superintendents, Korobotchka and Grishanov, and their wives, have left Hong Kong. The Soviet
authorities have not applied to send replacements; one of the departing Russians said that, until replacements arrived, no Soviet vessels would come
to Hong Kong for repairs.
IMMIGRATION
From China
24.
Legal immigrants from China without onward travel documents averaged
149 a day, consistent with figures for the last 12 months.
25.
A total of 8,597 illegal immigrants from China were arrested during the month (a daily average of 278) compared with the June total of 7,977 (a daily average of 266). This is the highest monthly figure so far this year. The reasons for these rising figures remain the magnetism of the more affluent life which Hong Kong is believed to offer, the breakdown of discipline in the communes, the failure of punishments to act as a deterrent and favourable
weather.
/ para 25.
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