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Hong Kong Ocupation

By AdrianWKT
  • Winston Churchill sends reinforcements

    Winston Churchill sends reinforcements

  • Canadian troops arrive on the HMCS Prince Robert

    Canadian troops arrive on the HMCS Prince Robert

    Canadian troops arrive on the HMCS Prince Robert

  • 36 Japanese fighters attack Kai Tak airfield and units of the Japanese23rd cross the Sham Chun Shan river

    36 Japanese fighters attack Kai Tak airfield and units of the Japanese23rd cross the Sham Chun Shan river

  • Evacuation of New Territories

    Evacuation of New Territories

  • Evacuation of Kowloon

    Evacuation of Kowloon
  • Japanese demand surrender but it was ignored

    Japanese demand surrender but it was ignored

    Japanese demand surrender but it was ignored Link to article: http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2597650

  • Japanese begin a heavy bombing and artillery barrage of the island's northern coasta defenses

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

  • Japanese main attack Hong Kong Island

    Japanese main attack Hong Kong Island

  • Grenadiers Retake mount Butler with heavy casualties

  • HK Comanding officer Lawson killed as Fortress Hong Kong captured

  • Royal rifles Retreat to Stanely

  • apanese attack Royal rifles and capture Stanley fort

  • Japanese attack st. Stephens hospital

  • Mt Cameron Captured and Malty calls for Governor Young to surrender

  • 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.

  • police recruited to be Kempeitai

    police recruited to be Kempeitai

  • Internment of most 'white' Allied civilians

  • 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)

  • Streets and buildings in Central were renamed in Japanese.

  • food rationing begins

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

  • Repatriation of Chinese back to the mainland

  • Repatriation of Chinese back to the mainland

  • Public utilities handed over to Japanese control

  • the US dropped an atomic bomb called the “Enola Gay” on Hiroshima, killingover 70,000 instantaneously.

    the US dropped an atomic bomb called the “Enola Gay” on Hiroshima, killingover 70,000 instantaneously.

  • Another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki,

  • Japan finally surrenders.

  • 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 apublic holiday in Hong Kong until 1967.

  • Franklin Gimson, Hong Kong's colonial secretary, declares himself interimgovernor.

  • The End

  • British Rear Admiral Sir Cecil Halliday Jepson Harcourts formally acceptsthe Japanese surrender. Mark Young resumes as Governor.

  • General Takashi Sakai, is tried as a war criminal and executed on theafternoon of.

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