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Winston Churchill realizes that Hong Kong is in danger and decides to send reinforcements.
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Canadian troops ariive on the HMCS Prince Robert.
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36 Japanese fighters attack Kai Tak airfield and units of the Japanese 23rd across the Shum Shan River.
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About 60,000 Japanese soldiers crossed the Shenzhen River (Guangzhou and Shenzhen had fallen into Japanese hands) to attack Hong Kong at 8:30 on 8th December 1941
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Evacution of New Territories
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Japanese forces broke the defence line put up mainly by British, Indian and Canadian soldiers at Lap Sap Bay near Shing Mun Reservoir on 11th December, 1941
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Evacuation of Kowloon
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Japanese demand surrender (Surrender was ignored)
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Japanese forces took Kowloon and the last British troops retreated to Hong Kong Island on 13th December, 1941
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Japanese forces started to attack Hong Kong Island at around midnight on 15th December, 1941, broke the British defence line.
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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 Hong Kong Island
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Japenese finally landed at Tai Koo on the eatern part of Hong Kong Island on 18th Decmeber,1941
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Grenadiers retake mount Butler with heavy casualties
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Hong Kong Comanding officer Lawson killed as Fortress Hong Kong captured
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Royal rifles Retreat to Stanley
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Japanese attack Royal Rifles and capture Stanley fort
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Japanese attck st. Stephen's hospital
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Mt Cameron Captured and Malty calls for Govenor Young to surrender
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The govener of Hong Kong surrender on 25th December, 1941
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Over the month 10,000 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 million yen.
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Police recruited to be Kempeitai
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Repatriatation of Chinese back to the mainland
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Internment of most 'white' Allied civilians
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The Hong Kong-Kowloon brigade(港九大隊) was established from the Guangdong People's anti-Japanese Guerilla forc led by Cai Guo-liang
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Streets and buildings in Cetral 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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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
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Another atomic bomb was dropped in 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
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Franklin Gimson, Hong Kong's colonial secretary, declares himself interim govener
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British Rear Admiral SIr Cecil Halliday Jepson Harcourts formally accepts the Japanese surrender. Mark Young resumes as Govener.
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The "30th Augsust" was declared as the "Liberation Day"(Chinese:重光紀念日), and had been a public holiday in Hong Kong until 1967
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General Takashi Sakai, is tried as a war criminal and executed on the afternoon of.