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First Opium War Start
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First Opium War End
After 2 years ,9 month and 5 days the first Opium War ended. The British won the first Opium War -
Telephones
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Japan attacked Hong Kong
Japan attacked Hong Kong after 8:00 and dropped the bombs causing large a numbers of death. HK was extremely outnumbered almost 4 to 1 (Japanese, 52,000, Allied, 14,000) -
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The Battle of Hong Kong
Japan attacked HK & after 18 days of battle ,Governor of Hong Kong Mark Young surrendered for the HK -
Hong Kong surrendered to Japan
Japan attacked Hong Kong, after long days of battle HK Governor of the time Mark Young surrendered. -
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Japan Occupating HK
Japan occupated HK for three years & eight months. HK/British/Indian/etc soldiers were taken to POW camps where they are forced to do hard labor & many other people were tortured, raped, &/or mutilated and an estimated of 10,000 HK civilians were executed.HK schools need to learn Japanese & in the 1941 ,18000 students were in schools after in 1945 only 4000 students were in school.HK people lived their lives in fear ,food was scarce & many people died of starvation. -
HK Kowloon Brigade
When the British soldiers in HK lefted ,HK Kowloon Brigade established and they were armed with 30 machine guns and several hundred rifles left by defeated British forces. They rescue prisoners of war and other people they were -
Aftermath
Japan lost at least 1,895 men and about 6,000 casualties. Allied casualties were 1,111 men killed, 1,167 missing and 1,362 wounded.
At the end of February 1942, The Japan government stated the numbers of prisoners of war in HK in total of 10,947 ,5,072 were British ,1689 were Canadian ,3829 were Indian ,others 357. -
HK Soldiers
Soldiers were taken to prison. They help to fight for HK and then got put in jail by the Japanese. -
Currency Change
HK dollars was outlawed and replace by Yen from the Japanese Military. The exchange rate was fixed at 2 HK dollars to 1 military Yen. -
Japanese surrendered to HK
1.6 million HK people in 1941 to 600,000 HK people in 1945 under the Japanese control -
Hong Kong became China's again