HONG KONG: 4,420 VIETNAMESE REFUGEES ARRIVE IN HONG KONG AFTER BEING STRANDED IN INTERNATIONAL WATERS.

Record ID: 274853

  • Title: HONG KONG: 4,420 VIETNAMESE REFUGEES ARRIVE IN HONG KONG AFTER BEING STRANDED IN INTERNATIONAL WATERS.
  • Date: 5th May 1975
  • Summary: 1. MS shipping harbour zoom to refugees on deck 7 ft 2. CU refugees 14 ft 3. MS ship and refugees along rails showing name Kaersk Line 20 ft 4. MS men secure line pan zoom back refugees on deck 26 ft 5. MS refugees on deck applaud and cheer zoom back to 32 ft 6. MS mother and baby on rail 7. MS stretcher case off over deck
  • Embargoed: 20th May 1975 13:00
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  • Location: HONG KONG
  • Country: Hong Kong
  • Reuters ID: LVANIU7LOP3M54XJDJ5RI7YG4ID
  • Story Text: A Danish freighter with 4,420 Vietnamese refugees on board steamed into Hong Kong on Sunday (4 May).

    The refugees, many of them reported to be soldiers of the defeated South Vietnamese Army (ARVN), fled Saigon shortly after the capital fell to the forces of the Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG) on April 30th.

    They were picked up from a sinking vessel by the Danish Maersk cargo-liner, Clara Maersk, about 100 miles south of Saigon in international waters. Five Hong Kong government departments joined forces in the operation, described as the largest relief operation in Hong Kong for 22 years.

    The refugees, classified by the Hong Kong government as victims of a sea disaster, will be cared for on humanitarian grounds. All of them will be temporarily housed in military company in the British Colony.
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