Hong Kong on Fire

By juustxn_0674
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    Winston Churchill send reinforcements to Hong Kong.

    Winston Churchill realises that Hong Kong is in danger and decides to send reinforcements.

  • Canadian troops arrive

    Canadian troops arrive on the HMCS Prince Robert.

  • Japanese fighters attack Kai Tak (0800)

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

  • Evacuation of New Territories

    Evacuation of New Territories

  • Evacuation of Kowloon

    Evacuation of Kowloon

  • Japanese demand surrender

    Japanese demand surrender (surrender is ignored).

  • Japanese bomb HK island

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

  • Japanese main attack Hong Kong Island (2330)

    Japanese main attack Hong Kong Island.

  • Grenadiers retake Mount Butler

    Grenadiers retake Mount Butler with heavy casualties.

  • HK commander Lawson killed

    HK Commanding officer Lawson was killed as Fortress Hong Kong captured.

  • Royal rifles Retreat to Stanley.

    Royal rifles Retreat to Stanley.

  • Japanese attack royal rifles (0500)

    Japanese attack Royal rifles and capture Stanley fort.

  • Japanese attack college (0600)

    Japanese attack St. Stephens’s College.

  • Mt Cameron captured (1515)

    Mt Cameron is captured and Maltby calls for Governor Young to surrender.
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    Food rationing begins.

    Food rationing begins.
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    HKD replaced with Japanese Yen

    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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    10,000 women raped

    Over the month, 10,000 women are raped.

  • Internment of white civilians

    Internment of most 'white' (western) Allied civilians.
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    HK Kowloon Brigade established

    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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    Police recruited

    Police were recruited to be Kempeitai.
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    Streets renamed in Japanese

    Streets and buildings in Central were renamed in Japanese.
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    Utilities handed to Japanese

    Public utilities handed over to Japanese control.
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    British Army Group formed by Colonel Ride

    The British Army Aid Group was formed by Colonel Lindsay Ride.
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    China retreats to the mainland

    Repatriation of Chinese back to the mainland.

  • Hiroshima atomic bomb

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

  • Nagasaki atomic bomb

    Another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.

  • Japanse surrender

    Japan finally surrenders

  • Hong Kong is handed over

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

  • Franklin Gimson becomes governor

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

  • British admiral accpets the Japansese surrender

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

  • General Takashi Sakai died

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