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DR PHILIP WONG: Mr President, can the Secretary elaborate a bit further on what the San Francisco Peace Treaty of 1951 is all about?

SECRETARY FOR SECURITY: Mr President. that was the peace treaty

mace between Japan and the allied powers.

1 蛋裝遐議員問:主席先生,深安司答再没有落女當向政府求助,或

並不清楚 密思樱求助。政府可否答允:第一,清楚地向公眾說明,如需要求助或申報時,西唑一

個政府部門接觸;第二,政府在澳得這些資料後,確地與日本商討怎樣作出賠谁?

C Note: Transactions of the Chiner question and it Annex.]

SECRETARY FOR SECURITY: Mr President, as I said in answer to a

previous supplementary, I think that they may well be if there are any such women reluctant to come forward. But the department where they should come forward to is the Social Welfare Department who will, of course, treat any information that they receive in confidence. I cannot say what we would do. We have not received any such cases. We would obviously have to consider them.

黃豪遐議員問:主常先生,我並不是詢問在何底,而是詢問政府會否清楚地告知公歌(即 向公眾人士宣布),需要前往何等等理,亦即是進行一些公眾教育?

SECRETARY FOR SECURITY: I am sorry, Mr President. I do not understand the question. I thought I said very clearly that people who wish to report such cases should do so to the Family Services Division of the Social Welfare Department.

DR HUANG CHEN-YA: Mr President, I had better speak in English. What I was asking is this: Would the Secretary make certain, by means of public education or publicity, that the people who may want to report such cases can know where they should report such cases to. because these women may not know who they should be reporting their problems to?

SECRETARY FOR SECURITY: Mr President, there has been quite some considerable publicity on this whole subject, not relating to Hong Kong but relating to other countries in the region, earlier this year. And as I have said, the result of that has been that no such cases have come forward in Hong Kong. If anybody did wish to report it then they should do so to the

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