Japanese Occupuation of HK

By Micah Shaw

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    Winston Churchill realizes that Hong Kong is in danger and decides to send reinforcements.
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    Japanese Occupucation of HK

  • 4

    Canadian troops arrive on the HMCS Prince Robert.

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    36 Japanese fighters attack Kai Tak airfield and units of the Japanese 23rd cross the Sham Chun Shan River.

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    Evacuation of New Territories.

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    Evacuation of Kowloon.

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    Japanese demand surrender (surrender is ignored).

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    Japanese begin a heavy bombing and artillery barrage of the island's northern coastal defenses.

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    Japanese main attack Hong Kong Island.

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    Grenadiers Retake Mount Buller with heavy casualties.

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    HK Commanding officer Lawson killed as Fortress Hong Kong captured.

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    Royal rifles Retreat to Stanley.

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    Japanese attack Royal rifles and capture Stanley fort.

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    Japanese attack St. Stephens’s College.

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    Mt Cameron captured and Maltby calls for Governor Young to surrender.

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    Over the month10,000 women are raped.

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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.

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    Police recruited to be Kempeitai.

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    Repatriation of Chinese back to the mainland.

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    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).

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    Streets and buildings in Central were renamed in Japanese.

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    Food rationing begins.

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    The British Army Aid Group was formed by Colonel Lindsay Ride.

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    Internment of most 'white' (western) Allied civilians.

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    Public utilities handed over to Japanese control.

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    The US dropped an atomic bomb from a Plane, called the “Enola Gay” on Hiroshima, killing over 70,000 instantaneously.

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    Another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.

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    Japan finally surrenders.

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    Hong Kong was handed over by the Imperial Japanese Army to the Royal Navy on.

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    Franklin Gimson, Hong Kong's colonial secretary, declares himself interim governor.

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    British Rear Admiral Sir Cecil Halliday Jepson Harcourt formally accepts the Japanese surrender; Mark Young resumes as Governor.

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    General Takashi Sakai, is tried as a war criminal and executed on the afternoon of.