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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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36 Japanese fighters attack Kai Tai airfield and units of the Japanese 23rd 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 ignored)
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Japanese begin a heavy bombing and artillery barrage of the island's Northern coastal defenses
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Japanese main attack on Hong Kong Island
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Grenadiers Retake mount Butler with heavy casualties
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HK Commanding officer Lawson killed as Fortress Hong Kong captured
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Royal rifles Retreat to Stanely
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Japanese attack Royal rifles and capture Stanley fort
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Japanese attack st. Stephens hospital
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Mt Cameron Captured and Malty calls for Governor Young to surrender
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food rationing begins
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Over the month10,000 women are raped
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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. -
the HK-Kowloon brigade (港九大隊) was established from the Guangdong
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The British Army Aid Group was formed by Colonel Lindsay Ride.
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Streets and buildings in Central were renamed in Japanese.
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police recruited to be Kempeitai
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Repatriation of Chinese back to the mainland
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Internment of most 'white' Allied civilians
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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. -
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 "Liberation Day" (Chinese: 重光紀念日), and had been a
public holiday in Hong Kong until 1967. -
Franklin Gimson, Hong Kong's colonial secretary, declares himself interim
governor. -
British Rear Admiral Sir Cecil Halliday Jepson Harcourts formally accepts
the Japanese surrender. Mark Young resumes as Governor. -
General Takashi Sakai, is tried as a war criminal and executed on the
afternoon of.
