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Illegal Immigrants and Vietnamese Refugees
Land on Sai Kung Peninsula
The two IIs arrested in Sai Kung, posing as Vietnamese refugees, said that they came from Luo Cun (5012/2625) Commune in Nanhai County, Guangdong Province and in April 1979 had met a male Vietnamese Chinese refugee resettled in China, named
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who
visited their Commune with the aim of setting up a private business (sic). According to the IIs,
had left HoChiMinh City in about late 1978 and had gone to China, where he had been resettled in the No. 13 Brigade of the Yingde Tea Farm. The two IIs befriended
and went into partnership with him, selling goods that
obtained in the villages adjacent to the Luo Cun Commune at a profit. The IIs plotted with to escape
to Hong Kong and learned some words of Vietnamese for their planned cover of posing as Vietnamese refugees.
gave the male II
a Vietnamese coat and told him if he were arrested, to claim that he could not speak much Vietnamese and to rely on some Vietnamese Chinese refugees who were escaping at the same time, who could answer any questions asked by the Hong Kong authorities.
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On the morning of 27th January,
told the two IIs that
all was ready for them to leave. They travelled by bus from Nanhai to Guangzhou (fare RMB 0.46) and then by bus to Taishan (fare RMB 5.68). At Taishan they met up with nine other potential escapees in the Taicheng (0669/1004) Restaurant, of whom six were Vietnamese Chinese (three males and three females) also from the Yingde Tea Farm.
said they would safely arrive in Hong Kong, as the boat on which they would travel had taken "passengers" to Hong Kong many times previously (no further details).
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The group of 12 spent the night at the Taishan Hostel and travelled by bus to Guanghai on the next day (28th January), arriving there at 2000 hours. They boarded a waiting sampan, which took them to a motorised fishing junk anchored off the coast. The two IIs said that they had not seen a similar junk in China and said that it was about 50 ft. long by 20 ft. (sic) wide, had a 2 storey rear superstructure and was equipped with a television set (sic). They thought it may have been a Hong Kong vessel and noticed paper covering its registration number.
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The two IIs paid a total of RMB 800 to the junk master, surnamed (2621) (f.n.u.). There were two other crew members aboard, but the IIs did not know their names. The sampan was loaded aboard the junk and the "passengers" were accommodated below decks, where they watched television. The voyage took 21⁄2 days and the passengers were supplied with bread and milk en voyage. The IIs were unaware of their route, except that they were told they had passed Shangchuan Dao (St. John's Islands). The IIs were told to remain silent during the voyage and a Police launch came alongside the junk just before it dropped its "passengers", but did not discover anything amiss.
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At about 0400 hours on 31st January, the junk stopped its engine and the "passengers" were taken ashore by sampan. returned to the junk, was loaded
aboard and the junk left. The
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The sampan
/landing place........
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