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Winston Churchill realizes that Hong Kong is in danger and decides to send reinforcements.
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Canadian troops arrive on the HMCS Prince Robert.
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Evacuation of New Territories
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Evacuation of Kowloon.
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Japanese begin a heavy bombing and artillary barrage of the island's northern coastel defenses.
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Japanese main attack Hong Kong Island.
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Grenadiers Retake Mount Butler with heavy casualities.
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Hong Kong Commanding officer Lawson killed as Fortress Hong Kong captured.
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Royal refles Retreat to Standley.
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Japanese attack Royal refles and capture Standley ford.
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Japanese attack St. Stephen's College.
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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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Interment of most 'white' (western) Allied civilians.
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The Hong Kong Kowloon brigage was established from the Guangdong People's anti-Japanese Guerilla force led by Cai Guo-liang.
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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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Over the month 10,000 women are raped.
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Public utilities handed over to Japanese control. Repartriation of Chinese back to the mainland.
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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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Another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.
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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 "Labour Day", and had been a public holiday in Hong Kong until 1967.
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Franklin Glimson, 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 Governer.
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General Takashi Sakai, is tried as a war criminal and executed on the afternoon of.
