Two More Chinese Illegal Migrants Found In Sydney

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28936, 2 July 1959, Page 11

Two More Chinese Illegal Migrants Found In Sydney

(Rec. 10 p.m.) SYDNEY, July 1 Federal investigation officers

seeking three stowaways from the Far Eastern trading ship Taiyuan early today arrested two Chinese in Sydney.

Both men, together with another Chinese found hiding in the loft of a suburban market garden yesterday later appeared in Court.

They were ordered to be detained for seven days by the Minister for Immigration, to decide whether they are illegal immigrants.

Immigration officers told the Court that the men were not the three stowaways they were seeking. But all three—Hor YueSang, aged 29. Leung Wah alias Fock Wa, and Sun Fai—had admitted illegally entering the country, they said.

The Court was told that Sang had admitted coming to Sydney from Hong Kong seven years ago. The other two Chinese, it was alleged, had deserted from ships and had been in Australia three years.

Leung Wah, aged 37, had claimed that he was Hong Kong-

born. He had been the quartermaster on the ship Nieuw Holland and had deserted in 1956 Immigration officers alleged that Sun Fai had admitted deserting a ship while employed as a cook.

The search for the three stowaways has followed the finding in Sydney Harbour a week ago of the bodies of two Chinese, wrapped in calico and bound with rope.

Seven members of the crew of the Taiyuan, a British-owned vessel which trades between Hong Kong and Australia, have subseqtntly been charged and remanded. All seven have been charged under the Immigration Act and three also face charges of attempting to conceal a body from the Cironer.