The total could be much larger since only every 1 out of 4 or 5 were caught by police patrol. Others have presumably entered Hong Kong without being detected. These young refugees. born and bred since the Communist takeover in 1949. had to cut through or scale barbed wires to reach the shore opposite Hong Kong. Then. under the cover of night. they had to use all kinds of buoyancy aidswhich were very scarce and hard to obtain because of Chinese Communist precautionary measuressuch as life buoys. inflated basketballs. plastic or rubber floats to swim across the treacherous seas into the Hong Kong waters. The journey takes 6 hours by even skilled swimmers.
Keywords matched
refugees