Was Hong Kong invaded by Japan in World War II? Ask god for help

It's been invaded again During World War II, Japan occupied Hong Kong and fell to 194 1. 12 On Sunday, February 7th, Hong Kong presented a peaceful and carefree atmosphere. The cinema is full, the bar is full, jazz music keeps coming out from the dance floor, and young people flock to the suburbs of the New Territories for an outing. In less than three weeks, Christmas will come. Only two or three days ago, the Hong Kong government held several joking air defense exercises. But the next morning, I heard the rumble of planes, the violent explosion of bombs and the return of anti-aircraft guns. The unexpected battle of Hong Kong began. Under the cover of fighter planes, 36 Japanese light bombers attacked Kai Tak Airport and Kowloon Seaplane Parking Area. Some houses near the airport were also hit by bombs. On the same day, Japan also attacked Pearl Harbor, a US naval and air base. The Pacific War broke out. On February 8, 65438, while attacking Kai Tak Airport and other places, Japanese soldiers divided into four roads and crossed the Shenzhen River to attack the New Territories. At the garbage bay line, most of the British troops retreated with a little resistance. Only in Huang Jinshan, southwest of Chengmen Reservoir, the fighting was fierce, and the two sides started hand-to-hand combat, and the battalion commander of the British infantry battalion was killed. In the end, the British commander Major General Maby decided to give up Kowloon and ordered the "Peninsula Brigade" to withdraw to Hong Kong Island. The Battle of Kowloon lasted only five days until 12 night, when the whole Kowloon Peninsula was occupied by the Japanese invaders. 12 at night, Britain and Japan shelled each other across Victoria Harbour. The next morning, a boat with a white flag sailed from Yau Ma Tei Pier in Kowloon to Hong Kong Island. The ship carried Tadashi Tanaka, Japan's special envoy for surrender, and private secretaries of the kidnapped Hong Kong Governor Li Fu and others. The British army rejected Japan's surrender. 17, the Japanese army once again sent people to cross the sea in two small boats to persuade them to surrender. Hong Kong Governor Yang refused again and warned Japan that if there were any more "peace messengers" crossing the sea, Hong Kong would not shoot them politely. At midnight on June 5438+08, the Japanese army forcibly landed on the north shore of Hong Kong Island with motorboats, rubber boats and other ships 100. They landed. After they landed, they fought fiercely with the British army in Huangniyong. Captain Ruosong of the Japanese army was seriously injured, and John Rochen (Canadian adult), commander of the British Western Brigade, was killed. As a result, the British army retreated, and the eastern and western brigades defending Hong Kong Island were cut off. The Japanese army also occupied Huangniyong Reservoir, cutting off the British water supply. There are few British troops left in some areas. The British commander thinks he can't resist any longer. After consulting with the governor, he decided to surrender unconditionally. On the evening of 25th, the British troops on the eastern and western fronts hung white flags one after another. So far, the battle of Hong Kong, which lasted 18 days, ended in the complete failure of the Japanese occupation of the whole Hong Kong area. 65438+February 25th is Christmas. In the evening, a car with a white flag sailed from Central to the Japanese headquarters in Happy Valley. Governor Yang signed an "armistice agreement" with Japanese representatives. He himself became a prisoner of the Japanese army. That night, most Hong Kong residents hid in dark houses or bomb shelters. The brightly lit "city that never sleeps" in the past has turned into a horrible world with rivers of blood, and the whole Hong Kong region has completely fallen into the clutches of the Japanese invaders, so people call this day "Black Christmas". After the Japanese army entered the city, atrocities such as robbery, rape of women and killing of innocent residents occurred frequently. The notice of the Japanese daughter hypocritically declared: "In order to protect China's property, the Hongkong War was a war against whites." However, there are still many China stores closed, especially those big ones, such as domestic companies, hardware stores and auto shops, such as Shixian, Yong 'an and Daxin. Most of the companies that have been sealed up have been marked with the words "Military Collection Department Management", while the doors of banks and pawn shops have been marked with the words "Financial Management". Everyone knows that "management" is just another name for robbery. The Japanese army stored 950,000 tons of rice in Hong Kong and took 800,000 tons as rations, which caused a serious food shortage in Hong Kong. The book "The Fall of Hong Kong-the 18th War" once described the Japanese army robbing with burning sticks: "The Japanese army is sorting out bundles of prey near the naval pier, and they are tied in sacks and filled a clearing. On the top of the sack, an enemy soldier is knotting a small label that says:' Kobe …' After the prey is gathered, the truck transports it to the dock on the West Ring Road, loads it on a big ship and sails back to Japan. " "I once stayed in front of a big bicycle shop (bicycle) for a long time. A car was put at the door, and several Japanese soldiers commanded the coolies. They carried the brand-new bicycles out one by one from the inside and put them on the car ... for a while, it was a truck ... so the brand-new bicycles were moved out one by one from the inside. " "The boss, like me, is as idle as a bystander, as if these things didn't belong to him ..." (Tang Hai: The Fall of Hong Kong-18th War, pp. 95-96) Many drunken Japanese soldiers often go out to look for women in the middle of the night besides robbing property. Women hide everywhere. Many women were humiliated and even gang-raped by several enemy soldiers. A few nights after the Japanese army held the "March into the city", many women were scared to run around on the roofs of the third and fourth floors, and the tiles were cracked. At that time, a woman said that she was not afraid of bombs and machine guns. Because she met them, she simply died. They are most afraid of enemy soldiers' flashlights and chilling knock on the door. The Japanese aggressor troops also killed innocent people, treating the lives of China people like dirt. In Lantang Road, not far from Happy Valley, a family of eight was killed. In Queen's Road West, an elderly woman was shot dead on the spot by the Japanese army because she didn't know Japanese and wanted to go east through the sentry post. In the bay, a young man accidentally broke into the so-called military zone, and Japanese soldiers came up with bayonets and killed him. In Yuanzhou Street, Sham Shui Po, a woman went shopping with a child on her back. When I came back, I caught up with martial law and looked at the building I believed in and couldn't get there. Her eldest son is about eight or nine years old and wants to cross the road to see his mother. The woman waved to stop her son from coming. Unexpectedly, both mother and son were shot by the Japanese army. ..... During the more than three years of Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, Hong Kong residents lived in dire straits and suffered great hardships. Japanese invaders forced residents to use military hand tickets. At first, the ratio of military tickets to Hong Kong dollars was set at one to two. In June 1942 10, it was changed to one to four. By June 3 1943, Hong Kong dollars were banned, and residents had to exchange military tickets in Taiwan banks within a time limit, otherwise they would be killed. This is an open financial plunder. In the early days of Japanese rule, residents could only get a rice ration of 624 yuan a day, barely making ends meet. In the middle of the war, there was a food panic, and the Japanese invaders changed the rationing system and only rationed the public servants who served the enemy. As a result, the price of rice soared from a few yuan per catty to more than 200 yuan, and countless residents starved to death. The Japanese army also demolished historical sites and houses at will. They demolished the wall of Jiulongzhai and blew up the Songwangtai, a symbol of national spirit. 1In August, 942, the Japanese army wanted to set up 500 comfort stations (military prostitutes' houses) in Hong Kong, and the location was Yuedao near Fozui, Wan Chai. Hirojin Nakagawa, the captain of the 68th Brigade of the Japanese Army, personally went out to command a large number of soldiers, and suddenly blocked Lok Road, starting from the corner of the Arsenal in the west and Xunning Road in the east, plus barbed wire. Fierce Japanese soldiers armed with bayonets ordered all residents to move out within three days, leaving no one behind. Residents were forced to move to other places, even sleeping on the streets in the wind and rain. This is the happy event created by the Japanese aggressor troops. In fact, the comfort station doesn't need so many houses, so the Japanese army turned this area into their entertainment area. In addition to comfort stations, there are also tea shops, bars and restaurants. Later, it was the bar area in Wan Chai. During the Japanese occupation, all walks of life in Hong Kong withered, and only evil industries such as gambling and drug abuse developed. There are casinos from the busiest Queen's Road to the most remote corner. The notorious big casinos include "Rong Sheng Company" and "Li Liang Company". A Japanese flag and a slogan "Come in if you have money" are often hung at the entrance of the casino. Some people are ringing the bell, while others are entertained by local prostitutes. This is the "new order" that the Japanese army brought to Hong Kong. Casino owners are mostly desperate people who collude with the Japanese army, and some even mark the hall numbers of their secret organizations in the past, such as "Eighteen Sons" and "Yue Chengtang". 1In February, 944, Tanaka Jiuhe, commander of the South Branch Dispatching Army, became the governor of Hong Kong and publicly encouraged gambling and paid for it. Since then, the number of casinos has increased, and it is even more malodorous. In addition, the Japanese army also encourages drug abuse. There is a drug trafficking agency in the enemy governor's office-Yuzhen Company, which transports tobacco soil from Jehol by plane and sets up a smoking place for smokers to buy cigarettes with permits. In World War II, China formed an anti-fascist alliance with the Soviet Union, the United States, Britain, France and other countries, supported each other, and waged a long and arduous struggle with German, Italian and Japanese fascists, and finally defeated the aggressors. 1On August 5th, 945, the Japanese Emperor announced his unconditional surrender in Tokyo, because Hong Kong did not belong to the Southeast Asian War Zone under the command of General mountbatten, but belonged to the China War Zone and was a part of the Guangdong War Zone. The Japanese troops stationed in Japan should have surrendered to the Japanese army. But under the pretext of revenge, Britain insisted that they send a fleet to Hong Kong to surrender. To this end, China and Britain made many diplomatic representations before and after Japan surrendered. Later, Chiang Kai-shek demanded that Britain be authorized to surrender to Hong Kong in the name of Commander-in-Chief of China Theater. However, with its own military strength and the support of the United States, the British government even rejected this face-saving request. During this period, after the news of Japan's surrender reached Hong Kong, Jenson, the Assistant Secretary of State of the Hong Kong government imprisoned in the Stanley concentration camp, immediately returned to the urban area to form an interim government in accordance with the instructions of the British government to prevent Hong Kong's status from changing after the war. He had no armed forces in his hand, but at that time he asked the Japanese to keep order temporarily and wait for the arrival of the British. 1On August 30th, 945, British Major General Xia Yan led the Royal Navy Task Force and sailed into Victoria Harbour to take over Hong Kong from the Japanese army. At that time, Chiang Kai-shek was eager to send troops to the north and seize strategic positions with the * * * production party. After Britain promised him to use Hong Kong as a transit point for transporting troops to the north and promised to hand over the equipment of Japanese troops stationed in Hong Kong, it acquiesced in the fact that Britain accepted Hong Kong. 1September 6, 945, accompanied by Major General Pan Guohua representing China, Colonel Williamson representing the United States and representatives of other allied countries, Major General Xia Yan formally accepted the surrender of Major General Okada Miki, commander of the Japanese troops stationed in Hong Kong, and Lieutenant General Fujita Taro, commander of the Japanese South China Fleet at the Government House. After three years and eight months of occupation, Hong Kong returned to British colonial rule.