Date.
District.
Time.
Gough Hill.
10.
Western.
11.
Aberdeen.
12.
Aberdeen.
13.
Eastern.
14.
Police H. Q. & Emergency Unit, Hong Kong.
15.
Stanley.
24.12.41
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177 Lewis assist ed the others to carry the wounded man to the lorry which Srgt. Brown drove. Particularly heavy shelling was going on at the back of the Station and in the neighbouring streets during this removal. As the result of the pounding which the station had received, with numerous hits, the Chinese Police became panicy and useless and had to be evacuated to Upper Levels and No.7 Station.
16.30 The War Memorial Hospital was very heavily shelled
to and incendiary bombs were dropped. 18.00 17.00
A few shells landed in Felix Villas. Otherwise the district remained quiet except that the fires started previously continued to rage fiercely.
19.00 with the approval of the Commissioner of Police which
Mr. Searle, Assistant Superintendent of Police, obtain ed after visiting the Station, the second evacuation of Aberdeen took place and all Police except for P.S.A.162 Williamson and three Indians, left the village.
19.30 P.S.A.162 Williamson, Officer in Charge, moved back
to the Station. He found it to have been badly wrecked. The Chinese kitchen, barrack room at east end, Charge Room, back ground verandah, the European kitchen, verandah and bedroom and the roof had receiv- ed severe damage. Windows and shutters had been smashed.
Night. The Police patrols were carried out as on the previous
day. The heavy bombardment of the station continued. 21.00 Mr. Wilson, Assistant Superintendent of Police, and
L. S. A.142 Kinloch observed morse signalling coming from May Road in the vicinity of Tregunter Mansions. An enemy barrage followed directed at the same place shortly afterwards. After maintaining observation from the roof of Police Headquarters, Gloucester Building, the Unit searched several houses in May Road after contacting the Military, without result. 21.00 The enemy attacked Stanley Peninsula and after fierce fighting lasting some hours gained possession. P.S.A. 69 Simpson, the Officer in Charge, and L. S. A. 13 Whitley took part with a Lewis Gun and hand grenades. The Indian and Chinese Police had all deserted by the time the enemy were within fifty or sixty yards of the Station. The retreat towards Stanley Fort along Wong Ma Kok Road was ordered when two of the four machine guns of the Middlesex Regiment had been put out of action and there was only six belts of ammuni- tion left for the two remaining guns. The retreat was carried out with the one gun covering the other.