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Those who came from China left from departure points near the confluence of the North and West Rivers and from Pingsha in Doumen County, west of Macau. All these refugees sailed first to Macau, where by the end of the month nearly 9,000 refugees, three quarters of them from China, had congregated. The Macau authorities feel they have little alternative to redirecting further arrivals to Hong Kong, in some cases providing the refugees with more seaworthy craft. The reason for the June surge in departures from China seems to have been the snowball effect of reports from earlier emigrants that they had not been stopped by the Chinese authorities and were not being quickly removed from Hong Kong.
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Encouraging news at the end of the month was that the Chinese authorities were at last ready to accept the return of a further substantial number of refugees from China. Plans are being made to send back 2,600 in the second half of July.
LIC Hong Kong July 1981
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