European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 15, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes resource is people too Many of them Dot on the world map the biggest t is existent Ove Popula ,.able to Cope we la its own internal population explosion Kong a on Hasl b Een hit by tar oble7hprdes of refugees flood eng Sou i to escape Julie 1.oifl Comto Iunisi China j ,1 finally the government of the British i Crown Colony has had to a Choice. Hong Kong s j rim to Fps to care for those a there. Colonial i Secretary Claude k Burgess told the legis Lauve Cound a4 of r refugees streaming across twisting 22-mile-Lwrder dividing new Coni Mullert chink Hie crackdown refugees would have to j i j 3. Some 55,000 were rounded up by police and soldiers and sent bade hands some had laced incredible hard ships in their futile bid for free Dom. They had swore Rivers Forde marshes scaled jagged Cliffs and packed themselves into impossibly Small r spaces in the Bottoms of A butt to Little Avail ,. Initially the latest escapes jihad been made across rugged terrain Between two mountains to Tung in the red Section and Robins nesting the Colony. The land is Ravine Laa Epy Wiki Rock strewn Lyle Arnvig that communist guards would not try to Slop them or i at least avoid not shoot Rel gees jihad of begun crossing in top latins areas nearer la Al Border crossing area. Here predawn Darlene is 500 to 3,000 " across in _ a single would flood mass wave., the t from.ridden., moved a Short distance East of the Bridge and swam the1 Shan Chun j i of across the bowl or they found them solves in flip virtually uninhabitable new territories North of the c Mitt Colony ice held on a fl9-Yoar lease from China which expires in1997. " Here Green lowlands Rise to rugged f Hills pitted with ravines eroded gullies and Rocky Cliffs. From Kowloon 11 is a Short Dis Tance across picturesque Victoria Harbor to the City of Victoria known As Hong Kong slender strip of usable land fringes this tiny overcrowded is land of. Massed Hill rising to peaks i a a i _ Asl he first refugees flooded across the Border into the new territories guards took i Luc the problem became More severe the roundups began f most1 were captured within two or three Miles of the wire fences thrown up. By the British a Short distance inside the Border a few managed to penetrate deeper into the St rub covered Hills Between the Border and Kowloon and some into the City itself where their detection would be virtually impose . J h a Tai Ftp captured were held it falling there a area for this j so Jup at the police training Center. It Ere they were fed and held overnight for the truck t or train we to love. From there they had to Waldback into the Uncertain life by Hind the Bamboo curtain. At Sheung Shui the Only major Village Between falling and to we sympathy la villagers some tried to slow truck convoys Irving refugees to jump and run. But incidents Here were minor. 5 behind the Story of Hong Xong s Itera fight lol halt the Refuge flow lies another Story a Story teeming with paupers pockmarked with tenements. It is a Story of a valiant fight by the British Crown Colony to provide for its own Peoples while severely handicapped by Export quotas imposed by other nations upon its manufactured goods. Hong Kong covers Only 62 Square Niles of usable land but its Post Arn population of 600,000 i do _4ijfr i t plagues i Tonto Kong at journey s end desperation a chinese woman refugee her eyes reflecting desperation stretches her hand out for food from the barbed wire Hong Kong detention Camp in which she was placed with the thousands of others for deportation Back to red China a trying innovations in planning actual Structure. A. Is with Silver done with Hurricane. Or tech of resisting on the attempts win be with acid Ini trendy in use. A bit of Prog or of the. Cent Ersee if thet and techniques re � satellites and Hurricane control Are experimental stages. = Fence who Chi guard the Isoa Stalne from Eastport me ill Cali just now u .iw5/. � j. J kure atom it was in were tit -.1 to riot discouraging. -.,_ in client interest bit be repeating the tests satellite Globe is sending a i a dec i ? season Atanac Only at night and can Hurricane devel supplementing the satellite will Aej radar radar materially helped on said Sunn. The was Winass Evacula font from the Texas and Louisiana coastal areas last year Belore the Hurricane struck killing 42 per a and causing an estimated $300millionv damage. Has swollen nearly six times to 35million. Since 1948, when the communists mounted their final drive to seize control of Mainland China More than a million refugees Havi flooded across the Border. Now they seem to be eyeing an other area the portuguese Colon of Macao As their Haven. One report said that refugee arrivals in Macao some 50 Miles West of Hong Kong amounted to 300 to 400 a Day. The Macao government reportedly has in tented it will not close the door to refugees. Nationalist cd i n a which has publicly announced that it will take All refugees who want to Goto Formosa is said to be stepping up Relief activities in Macao. The United states has said it would take several thousand refugees and the first have already begun to arrive. While this May come As Good news to Hong Kong it does t solve the Colony s refugee prob lems. Hong Kong a 398 swampy Rocky Square Miles have no minerals in appreciable amounts and no enough water. The Colony s Only natural resource say officials is its people and the Only Way Hong Kong can support them is to expand its manufacturing and increase its exports. Industrial expansion permitted by free Access to world markets would allow Hong Kong to support a population of 5 million by 4970 if the increase were gradual says the government. Bui such free a Cess in t Likely. Last year Hong Kong spent More than $56 million30 per cent of its lot annual budget for housing health education and Wel fare for the refugees already there. In the past six years the government has built some 200 Multi Story apartment blocks grouped in 11 housing estates. It has resettled440,000 persons. But another half million refugees still live in packing Board and tar paper shacks perched on hillsides 80,000 live in similar huts on rooftops and in Esti mated 295,000 live in jobs Tankard tenement quarters. Here a be space six by three feet frequently is Home for an entire family and an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 persons sleep on sidewalks or stairs. This year the Colony is building resettlement estates for another 120,000a program it plans to maintain for the next five years. But the Point has been reached say government officials where Hong Kong no longer can care both for the natural increase in its present population 91,000 More birth than deaths in 1960 an new hordes of refugees. London a 30-j Tern of profitable family within the British coi seems doomed if Britain Europe s. Common Market. The Mere thought of it ens a crisis i Commonwealth lations. I tall this goes Back to the of the once dominant British Pire when London directly India for example. I the British Commonweal Lac " nations As it is formally links various nations territories in Asia Al americas Europe and the West Pacific. South Drew last year. Goods circulate the Ottawa agreement of set the form for a kind of Market where goods late cheaply in a global than 700 million roughly the ground rules a British made goods paid or none at All paid. For the privilege into the Empire Market. It worked Well enough but Hist imitation s. Under economic pres sure Mer Feer countries up Tariff Walls even a gaunt British goods. Some prefer in slowly eroded with the years. A four years ago a new common Market of six european nations Vas born. Britain was slow to rasp the significance of Crpss the Channel it Eft to others the shaping of tiffs new economic unit. Last realized woefully late that it had to be in there with the rest ,. Broth but up prob Chi the decision brought the British negotiators up against an immedi ate problem. How could Britain accept the common Market s to it protective Tariff against outsider and still give Cut rate preference within the Commonwealth family the answer wast it could to Britain is not going to be note to obtain Lull concessions for Tista Commonwealth products it novae Septa on favored terms. 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