Japanese occuption of Hong Kong

By jessica1988612

  • Winston Churchill realizes that Hong Kong is in danger and decides to send reinforcements

  • Canadian troops arrive on the HMCS Prince Robert

  • 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 Kowloon

  • Japanese demand surrender (surrender is ignored)

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

  • Japanese main attack Hong Kong Island

    At 22:30

  • Grandiers Retake Mount Butler with heavy casualties

  • HK commanding officer Lawson killed as Fortress Hong Kong captured

  • Royal rifles Retreat to Stanley

  • Japanese attack Royal riflies and capture Stanley fort

    5:00 am

  • Japanese attack St.Stephens's Hospital

    6:00 am

  • Mt Camerion captured and Maltby calls Governor Young to surrender

    3:15 pm

  • Hong Kong dollar was outlawed and replaced by the Japanese Military Yen. The exchange rate was fixed at Hong Kong dollars to one military yen

  • Police recruited to be Kempeitai

  • Internment of most 'white' (western) Allied civilians

  • The HK - Kowloon brigade was established from the Guangdong people's anti - Japanese Guerilla force led by Cai Guo - Liang

  • Food rationing begins

  • Streets and buildings in Central were renamed in Japanese

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

  • Over the month, 10,000 women are raped

  • Public utilities handed over to Japanese control. Repatriation of Chinese back to the mainland

  • The Us dropped an atomic bomb called the "Enola Gay" on Hiroshima, killing 70,000 instantaneously.

  • Another atomic bomb was dropped in Nagasaki

  • Japan finally surrenders

  • Hong Kong was handed over by imperial Japanese Army to the Royal Navy on

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

  • British Rear Admiral Sir Cecil Halliday Jepson Harcourt 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.

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