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Japanese main attack Hong Kong Island
It was at 10:30 pm. -
Mt Cameron Captured and Malty calls for Governor Young to surrender
It was at 3:25pm. -
Winston Churchill realized that Hong Kong is in danger
they decides to send reinforcements -
Canadian troops arrive on the HMCS Prince Robert
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Canadian troops arrive on the HMCS Prince Robert
So HMCS Prince David was one of three Canadian National Steamships passenger liners that were converted for the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) -
36 Japanese fighters attack Kai Tak airfield and units of the Japanese 23rd cross the Sham Chun Shan river
It happened at 8am. -
Evacuation of New Territories
The flag of imperial Japan is flying in the New Territories. -
Evacuation of Kowloon
The flag of imperial Japan is flying in the Kowloon. -
Japanese demand surrender
surrender is ignored -
Japanese begin a heavy bombing and artillery barrage
the island's northern coastal
defenses -
Grenadiers Retake mount Butler
with heavy casualties -
HK Comanding officer Lawson killed as Fortress Hong Kong captured
Brigadier John Kelburne Lawson was killed in action during the defence of Hong Kong. -
Royal rifles Retreat to Stanely
That day is christmax eve. -
Japanese attack st. Stephens hospital
It happened at 6am. -
Japanese attack Royal rifles and capture Stanley fort
it happened at 5am. -
police recruited to be Kempeitai
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Hong Kong Dollar was outlawed and replaced by the Japanese Military Yen.
The exchange rate was fixed at 2 Hong Kong dollars to one military yen -
Over the month10,000 women are raped
Raping of local women was common in those days -
police recruited to be Kempeitai
Hong Kong police were recruited to become Japanese military police -
Repatriation of Chinese back to the mainland
Unemployed were deported to China -
Internment of most 'white' Allied civilians
Governor, British soldiers and civilians were kept in prison-of-war or internment camps -
the HK-Kowloon brigade (港九大隊) was established from the Guangdong People's anti-Japanese Guerilla force led by Cai Guo-liang (蔡國梁)
Local resident Cai Guo Liang acted as commander -
streets and buildings in Central were renamed in Japanese
For example,Queens Road was one of those. -
food rationing begins
Each family was given a rationing license to get very little food -
The British Army Aid Group was formed.
It's formed by Colonel Lindsay Ride. -
Public utilities handed over to Japanese control
Hospitals were occupied by Japanese troops, they are turned to military hospital or forced to close -
US dropped an atomic bomb called the “Enola Gay” on Hiroshima, killing over 70,000 instantaneously
The atomic bomb on Hiroshima has shocked the world -
Another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki,
The second bomb has caused Japan to surrender -
Japan finally surrenders
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Hong Kong was handed over by Imperial Japanese Army to the Royal Navy on • The "30 August" was declared as the "Liberation Day" (Chinese: 重光紀念日), and had been a public holiday in Hong Kong until 1967
British control over Hong Kong was restored -
Franklin Gimson, Hong Kong's colonial secretary, declares himself interim governor.
British government moved quickly to regain control over Hong Kong -
British Rear Admiral Sir Cecil Halliday Jepson Harcourts formally accepts the Japanese surrender. Mark Young resumes as Governor.
Control over the colony was quickly re-established by the British government -
General Takashi Sakai, is tried as a war criminal and executed on the afternoon of.
Japanese war criminal was deserved to be executed
