Winston Churchill realizes that Hong Kong is in danger and decides to sendreinforcements
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
Evacuation of New Territories
Evacuation of Kowloon
Japanese demand surrender (surrender is ignored)
Japanese begin a heavy bombing and artillery barrage of the island's northern coastaldefenses
Japanese main attack Hong Kong Island
Charged with covering the southwest and west coasts of the island, the Grenadiers established their headquarters at Wan Chai Gap.
Grenadiers Retake mount Butler with heavy casualties
HK Comanding officer Lawson killed as Fortress Hong Kong captured
Royal rifles Retreat to Stanely
Japanese attack Royal rifles and capture Stanley fort
Japanese attack st. Stephens hospital
Mt Cameron Captured and Malty calls for Governor Young to surrender
police recruited to be Kempeitai
Over the month10,000 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.
Repatriation of Chinese back to the mainland
Food was rationed during the Japanese Occupation. Every person was limited to buy only 240g of rice per day.
Internment of most 'white' Allied civilians
the HK-Kowloon brigade (港九大隊) was established from the GuangdongPeople'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.
Public utilities handed over to Japanese control
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.
The British took control of Hong Kong after the Japanese unconditionally surrendered.
Franklin Gimson, Hong Kong's colonial secretary, declares himself interimgovernor.
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.
