Word: kowloon
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...refugees from Red Guard terror who trickled out of China last week must have done a double take as they reached Hong Kong. There, queued up in Kowloon Station beside the mid-morning train to Canton were hundreds of Chinese waiting to go home. There were teen-age girls in distinctly non-proletarian blouses, old men in bourgeois pin-striped suits, and women whose arms were draped with heavy jackets in anticipation of the chilly Chinese autumn. The refugees-in-reverse were overseas Chinese from Indonesia, some 4,000 of whom have fled back to the mainland in recent months...
PORTIA SHEEN Kowloon, Hong Kong...
...Kowloon, Hong Kong...
Dazzling Food. Once they reach Kowloon or Victoria, they are relatively safe, for the Chinese of Hong Kong are close and clannish and, in a crisis, do not desert their own. The refugees disappear into the life of the Hong Kong poor-grim by Western standards but, measured against Red China, a bit of paradise...
...essential operation akin to wartime intelligence gathering. He and Correspondents Jerry Schecter and Loren Fessler interview European and Asian businessmen who travel in and out of China, see diplomats down from Peking, pump the occasional Swiss journalist who gets a mainland visa. They keep a man posted at Kowloon railroad station to watch for arrivals from Canton; they get word of refugees arriving at Macao, and interview them-poor, haggard and inarticulate people who can tell of the rice ration in their own village but are ignorant of conditions five miles away...