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Opening Ceremony (Video) Officiating Guests: Mr. CHENG Po Hung, Collector and Expert Advisor of the Hong Kong Museum of History and the Hong Kong Heritage Museum. Professor Roger CHENG, Associate Provost for Teaching and Learning, HKUST.A new, unique and important documentary will be shown this weekend, It deals with the battle, but focuses to a far greater extent on the years of Japanese occupation of Hong Kong in WWII.

Invasion Of Hong Kong Series Images From

Alterniflora) over the coast of mainland China, monitoring its spatiotemporal invasion patterns is important for the sake of coastal ecosystem management and ecological security. In this study, Landsat series images from 1990 to 2015 were used to establish multi-temporal datasets for 'All consequences are at your own risk,' a soldier yells into a loudspeaker at the start of the drill in Cantonese, the language spoken in Hong Kong rather than the Mandarin of mainland China. READ:В Commentary: The Hong Kong protests seem to be escalating instead of fading awayHong Kong in World War Two was a British colony. With the invasion of Malaya and Thailand on December 8th 1941, the capture of Hong Kong was an obvious extension of the war that had been fought between China and Japan since 1937. Opening Hours: Monday Friday: 9:00 a.m.

Various British defence studies concluded that Hong Kong would be extremely hard to defend in the event of a Japanese attack, but, in the mid-1930s, work began on new defence facilities, including the Gin Drinkers' Line. On 21 October 1938 the Japanese occupied Canton (Guangzhou) and Hong Kong was effectively surrounded. Britain first thought of Japan as a threat with the ending of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance in the early 1920s, a threat that increased with the escalation of the Second Sino-Japanese War. READ:В Commentary: Will Hong Kong call for BeijingвЂ™s back-up to quell protests?The protests evolved into a people power movement for democratic reforms and an end to eroding freedoms, in the most significant challenge to Beijing's rule since the city's handover from Britain in 1997.Beijing had largely left the city's government to deal with the unrest, although on Tuesday it stepped up its rhetoric with a rare press conference from the spokesman of the Cabinet-level Hong Kong and MacaoВ Affairs Office.'No civilised society or rule of law society will tolerate rampant violence,' the spokesman, Yang Guang, told reporters in Beijing.Thousands of PLA troops have been based at the Hong Kong garrison since the handover.The caption to its online video posted on Wednesday reinforced its core mission.'We are.

Canadian contribution See also: British Forces Overseas Hong Kong Six weeks before the battle, this Canadian contingent arrives to bolster British presence. In September 1941 they reversed their decision and argued that additional reinforcements would provide a military deterrent against the Japanese, and reassure Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek that Britain was genuinely interested in defending the colony. Winston Churchill and his army chiefs designated Hong Kong as an outpost, and initially decided against sending more troops to the colony. Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, the Commander-in-Chief of the British Far East Command argued that limited reinforcements could allow the garrison to delay a Japanese attack, gaining time elsewhere.

Infantry Companies, Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps (HKVDC) Hong Kong Chinese Regiment (Infantry battalion) The Royal Rifles of Canada (Rifle battalion) 1st Battalion, The Middlesex Regiment (Machine gun battalion)

Royal Canadian Army Service Corps, RCASC Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, RCAMC Artillery Batteries, Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps (HKVDC)

Three companies of 3rd Independent Transportation Regiment 1st&2nd River Crossing Material Company, 9th Division One third of medical unit, 51st Division 20th Independent Mountain Artillery Battalion 10th Independent Mountain Artillery Regiment 38th Division: 228th, 229th and 230th Infantry Regiments

The RAF station at Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport ( RAF Kai Tak) had only five aeroplanes: two Supermarine Walrus amphibians and three Vickers Vildebeest torpedo-reconnaissance bombers, flown and serviced by seven officers and 108 airmen. British, Canadian and Indian forces, commanded by Major-General Christopher Maltby supported by the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps resisted the Japanese invasion by the Japanese 21st, 23rd and the 38th Regiment, commanded by Lieutenant General Takashi Sakai, but were outnumbered nearly four to one (Japanese, 52,000 Allied, 14,000) and lacked their opponents' recent combat experience.The colony had no significant air defence. Two formations of 10th Independent Air SquadThe Japanese attack began shortly after 08:00am on 8 December 1941 ( Hong Kong local time), less than eight hours after the Attack on Pearl Harbor (because of the day shift that occurs on the international date line between Hawaii and Asia, the Pearl Harbor event is recorded to have occurred on 7 December).

Two of the Royal Navy's three remaining destroyers were ordered to leave Hong Kong for Singapore. The RAF and Air Unit personnel from then on fought as ground troops. The attack also destroyed several civil aircraft including all but two of the aircraft used by the Air Unit of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corp. Two of the three Vildebeest and the two Walrus were destroyed by 12 Japanese bombers. The Japanese bombed Kai Tak Airport on 8 December. Three destroyers were to withdraw to Singapore Naval Base.

The Japanese 38th Infantry under the command of Major General Takaishi Sakai quickly forded the Sham Chun River by using temporary bridges. Together they made 16 sorties and evacuated 275 persons including Mme Sun Yat-Sen, the widow of the 'Father of the Nation' and the Chinese Finance Minister Kung Hsiang-hsi.The Commonwealth forces decided against holding the Sham Chun River and instead established three battalions in the Gin Drinkers' Line across the hills. Sweet, William McDonald, Frank L. According to articles in the New York Times and the Chicago Daily of 15 December 1941, the pilots' names were Charles L.

By 10:00am the hill was again taken by the Japanese. D company of the Royal Scots counter-attacked and captured Golden Hill. The line was breached in five hours and later that day the Royal Scots also withdrew from Golden Hill.

There was a further massacre of prisoners, this time of medical staff, in the Salesian Mission on Chai Wan Road. They suffered only light casualties, although no effective command could be maintained until the dawn came.That night, approximately 20 gunners were executed at the Sai Wan Battery despite having surrendered. When these were rejected, Japanese forces crossed the harbour on the evening of 18 December and landed on the island's North-East. Two demands for surrender were made on 13 December and 17 December.