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CONFIDENTIAL

ARRI SON

4.

announcement

that

No perceptible concern in Hong Kong over

garrison will be reduced by one battalion from 1987. No Chinese

reaction.

VIETNAMESE REFUGEES

5.

Following the UK's decision to accept an additional 500 Vietnamese refugees from Hong Kong we are actively pressing other

resettlement countries also to take additional members. Australia

has agreed to take an extra 200 n ext year. Responses from others not very encouraging. 10,000 refugees still in Hong Kong camps.

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