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NEARLY 600,000 IMMIGRANTS FROM CHINA SINCE 1775 AND TO REPATRIATE A FURTHER 230,000 ILLEGAL ENTRANTS IN THE SAME PERIOD. IN THIS CONTEXT IT WOULD DE VERY PAPD TO CONVINCE LOCAL OPINION THAT VR'S SHOULD BE TREATED AS A SPECIAL CASE AND ABSORBED IN LARGER NUMBERS INTO OUR OVERCROWDED TERRITORY THAN THE PRESENT IMMIGRATION CRITERIA ALLOW.
2. OUR ONLY OTHER PRELIMINARY COMMENT CONCERNS SCORRI'S QUESTION (F), WHERE WE ASSUME YOU WILL DRAW TO SCORRI'S ATTENTION THE RAPID DECLINE IN ARRIVALS HERE IN LATE 1732, 1390 AND 1994; AND POINT OUT THAT THERE WAS NO (NO) DECLINE IN HONG KONG'S ARRIVALS BETWEEN 1930 AND 1982 (ILTHOUGH THERE WAS A REGIONAL DECLINE), WHILE OUR DECLINE IN ARRIVALS SINCE THEN HAS CONSTANTLY EXCEEDED THE
REGIONAL FALL.
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