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iloanwhile, the others started to inspect our luggages. They did not even bother to ask any of the owners to witness what they were doing. I found out one day later that I lost one set of necklace and bracelet worth $8,500.00. It was either pocketed by one of them or someone returned to our flat while we were at the Folice Station. While in the flat, the police- men ate some of our food and appropriated eight packs of my Salom cigarettes. The Folicewonen in the team called my two fénale companions "prostitutes! A certain
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pointed an accusing finger at my face and bluntly said I am a Papa Sang. At that point, I lost my cool and in a loud voice I told him to substantiate his accusations otherwise, I would file a case of oral defa: azion against him, or, if I can't do that, I would send a strongly worded letter to the Gover- nor of Hongkong. They did not like what I told them and so We were taken to the Tsim Sha Tsui police station to prolong our agony. Before leaving the flat,
told the flat owner not to let Filipinos stay there because the Fili- sinos are either prostitutes or pickpockets.
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de arrived at the police station at about i More police abuses were committed a;ainst us. For four hours we were not allowed to sit down, talk to each other, saoke nor buy food. We were scolded or shouted/if we leaned on the walls or the filing cabinets. Finally after four hours of nonsense our Jansports were returned. No charges wore Filed, no finger- printings were done, no apologies were made for the incon- venience we've gone thru and no explanations were given as to why we were detained for more than six hours. We were sim- ply told to go home! In other words, Allis' tean wasted six hours of valuable police time and six hours of our precious time! The result is quite obvious---he created a lot of ill- will between the Filipinos and Hongkong.
Five roşular daily flights brings an average of 800 Filipi- nos to Hongkong every day. If each of then should spend an average of 35,000.00 during their short stay there, the sum involved could go a long way toward the economic uplift- of hongkong. hr. Ellis should be grateful to the Filipino people. He should not hound them or persecute them like rats! Bingapore and Guan are two duty free ports where Filipino businesonen and tourists are accorded better treatment. Con- sidering, that Hongkong's economic existence in dependent on it's export and tourism industries, Hongkong cannot afford to lose the patronage of 300,000 Filipinos who commutes to that colony yearly!
While the intention of the higher authorities of Hongkong to weed out the undesirable elerents are good for everybody, citizens and visitors alike, the vesting of extraordinary
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