Chinese illegal immigrants to Hong Kong
- Title
- Chinese illegal immigrants to Hong Kong
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Press conference
- TX Date
- Unknown
- Year of production
- 1979
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- Duration
- 00:02:55
- Description
- Report on dramatic increase in illegal Chinese immigrants to Hong Kong, reporter joins a repatriation with the Gurkha Field Forces with one of the refugees attempting to escape. Includes press conference with Brigadier Mike Halton(?) Smith; interview with Gurkha soldier. Male reporter not identified.
- Contributors
- Mike Halton(?) Smith
- Keywords
- Deportation; Immigrants; China; Statistics; Hong Kong; Colonial countries; Soldiers; Political refugees; Murray MacLehose
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LBC/IRN, "Chinese illegal immigrants to Hong Kong". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0009800508019 (Accessed 06 Apr 2026)