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The Prime Minister in Britain at that time, Winston Churchill, decides that Hong Kong is in danger and sends reinforcements.
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Canadian troops arrive on the HMCS Prince Robert.
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36 Japanese fighters attack Kai Tak airfield and units of the Japanese23rd 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 northern coast of HK Island... (North Point, Quarry Bay etc..)
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Japanese main attack on Hong Kong Island starts...
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Grenadiers retook Mount Butler with heavy casualties...
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Sadly, HK's Comanding officer Lawson is killed, as Fortress Hong Kong is captured...
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Royal Rifles (Sharpshooters) retreat to Stanley..
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Christmas was supposed to be a jolly day, however, it was not a joly day for Hong Kong...
-Japanese attacked the Royal Rifles and captured Stanley Fort...
-Japanese attacked st. Stephens hospital, leaving many dead, as there were many sick and people injured because of the war...
- Hong Kong is forced to surrender... -
It meant a lot of bad things (not a lot...)
- Over the month 10,000 women are raped...
- Hong Kong Dollar was outlawed and replaced by the Japanese Military Yen. Theexchange rate was fixed at 2 Hong Kong dollars to one military yen.
- Internment of most 'white' Allied civilians....
- police recruited to be Kempeitai... (Japanese agents) -
The HK-Kowloon brigade (港九大隊) was established from the GuangdongPeople's anti-Japanese rebillion force led by Cai Guo-liang (蔡國梁)
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-food rationing begins..
-streets and buildings in Central were renamed in Japanese. -
The British Army Aid Group was formed by Colonel Lindsay Ride.
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Public utilities handed over to Japanese control....
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The US dropped an atomic bomb called the “Enola Gay” on Hiroshima, killing over 70,000 instantaneously.....
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The US bombing Japan, again, this time in Nagasaki...
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Japan Surrenders in August 15, 1945...
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The "30 August" was declared as the "Liberation Day" (Chinese: 重紀念日), and had been apublic holiday in Hong Kong until 1967.
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1/9/- Franklin Gimson, Hong Kong's colonial secretary, declares himself interim governor.
6/9- British Rear Admiral Sir Cecil Halliday Jepson Harcourts formally accepts the Japanese surrender. Mark Young resumes as Governor.
30/9- General Takashi Sakai, is tried as a war criminal and executed in the after noon..
