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Feeding on their desire are dozens of "travel agents" in Portugal's flyspeck colony of Macao, which juts off Red China's southern shore. What the agents offer is a one-way "ticket," at prices of $70 to $125 a head, for the 40-mile voyage from Macao to Hong Kong. The price is steep, but since Hong Kong is already bursting with 1,250,000 refugees and legally admits only 50 more a day, impatient hordes from the mainland are willing to pay dearly to be smuggled into the crown colony aboard crowded, leaky junks...
...with good reason. In the past month seven bombs, presumably planted by Nationalist underground agents, have killed five people and wounded 40 others inside Red China. The terrorists have blown up a blockhouse, a dynamite magazine, a bank, a stretch of railway near the borders of Hong Kong and Macao. An attempt was also made to destroy a Macao-Canton ferryboat, but it was foiled when crewmen discovered a tin labeled "Apricot Kernel Cakes with Meat Filling" behind a men's room mirror. It was a TNT bomb, and the passenger suspected of planting it was executed two weeks...
...Indian press charged that Britain in Suez behaved far worse than India; conveniently forgotten was the fact that Britain bowed to a U.N. cease fire and withdrew from the territory it had taken. The Times of India voiced the surprise of Indian diplomats that the Portuguese authorities in Macao and Africa had interned 30,000 Indian passport holders, "because this is the kind of step usually taken against enemy aliens on the outbreak of war; India is not at war with Portugal...
...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...
...electric power, only one in every nine street lamps is lit. Two years ago, Chinese in Hong Kong shipped 870,000 food parcels annually to their relatives in China. This year, in answer to desperate appeals, they have already shipped 9,000,000. Refugees stream into Hong Kong and Macao, escaping any way they can. To avoid feeding those unable to work, Red China is now giving exit visas to the aged and infirm. One Hong Kong resident had gone to China in 1958 because "I wanted to work for my country"; last week he fled back to Hong Kong...