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SAVING TELEGRAM RECEN

Unclassified

From the Governor Hong Kong

To The Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Telegram Number 189 Saving of 5 June 1981

PY. 11-

16 JUN 1981

DESK OFFICER INDEX

PA

V

REGISTRY Action Taker

Ah 16/1

Repeated for information Saving to the Hong Kong Government Uffice boarder MODUK (DS11), Ukmis Geneva, Washington, Peking. Singapore, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Bangkok, Canberra, Ottawa, BIS New York, Ukmis New York, Paris, Lisbon, UKREP Brussels, Brussels, Copenhagen, The Hague, Oslo, Stockholm, Berne, Dublin, Vienna, Buenos Aires, Brasilia, Caracas, Bonn, The Holy See, Seoul, Tokyo, Hanoi, Hanoi, Wellington, Madrid, Telaviv, Georgetown, Belmopan, Rome.

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My saving telegram number 161: Vietnamese réfugees in Hong

Kong Sitrep on 1 June

-

1. Total in Hong Kong 19,054 of which:

Awaiting resettlement: 15,749

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tof.

In detention

3,305

May arrivals direct from Vietnam: 1,235 of which 585

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rescued at sea by

ships

from China

: 537

: 1,670

May departures

2. Resettlement destinations since January 1981 (May figures

in brackets): -

USA (Direct)

6,843 (1,367)

USA (To Bataan) :

3

UK

1,450 ( 73)

Canada

999 (131)

Australia

294 (

45)

Hong Kong

44 (

2)

Netherlands

39 (

37)

Switzerland

37 (

1)

Denmark

31 (

1)

FRG

27 (

2)

/NORWAY

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