Refugees

Hong Kong, Britain's island colony,clinging to the flank of Red China.Here the flow of refugees from the mainlandis an indicator of the Chinese people's mood.The influx of nearly a million in 10 yearsat an undiminished rate points to a continuing discontenton the mainland.In this haven of freedom, hundreds of thousandsof refugees are crowded into concrete permanent emergency

shelters and far more live in hillside hobbles.Most of these refugees have no hopebeyond day-to-day survival, dependingon food from overseas charities to sustain life.No aid comes from International funds for the vast numbers whohave fled China's communist new order.Geography and geopolitics have made them the responsibility

of this British colony, the price Hong Kongnow pays for its best posterity as one of the great tradingposts of the Orient.