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about the conditions at the closed camps? I understand you have been to Bowring. Were you satisfied with the conditions?
MR HOCKE:
Here as a general statement and hoping not to contradict myself, I have to confess that the more I am going through camps, the less I get accustomed to them and that wherever you get I think it always painful to look at people who have been forced, elected to leave their homes, very often became separate from their families, to live for quite some time, be it in a closed camp or an open camp, hoping for a better future and being more or less confined to be assisted and finding it very difficult to take care
of themselves. So what I have seen this morning is exactly along the same line. It is a difficult human problem yet it is true to say also that here in Hong Kong, like in many other countries, a lot has been done in welcoming these people, in trying to accommodate as best can be done given the local circumstances, but basically, and I would like
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