Over the next few weeks he made plans and gathered two fellow officers who were prepared to join him, Flying Officer Baugh (later killed in a flying accident in Burma in October 1943) and Captain Trevor, who spoke Cantonese having worked for the Kowloon-Canton Railway. My father regarded it his duty as an officer to attempt to escape. Within days the troops were marched across to Kowloon and imprisoned at Sham Shui Po. Planning the Escapeīy Christmas Day the battle was lost. He said that they were surrounded and fighting a tremendous battle with small arms: “What else is there to do” he said in a rather humorous, resigned tone of voice. Quarter of an hour later I rang up again, this time I got Tim. I could hear the machine gun fire down the phone. I rang up to ask Jack Fox what the position was at Wong Nei Cheong. The New Territories were poorly defended and quickly fell, leaving only Hong Kong island in the hands of the Allies.
They had the choice of losing face by withdrawing from Indo-China and South China, or securing these prizes by war!”Ī fierce battle raged for over two weeks. Their imports of oil were cut from 80 million barrels in 1940 to 8m in 1941. put trade barriers and embargoes against the Japs which prevented them getting oil, tin, rubber, etc.
Why attack Hong Kong? According to Oliver Lindsay, military historian, in personal correspondence with my father, “ after moving into French Vichy Indo-China the US, UK, Dutch etc. Major John Monro, 1942 The Battle of Hong KongĮight hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the Japanese attacked the Allies on the other side of the Pacific.
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