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the treacherous Japanese attaca fell simultaneously on
Pearl Harbour and Hong Kong on 7th December 1941.
H.Kgarrison of United Kingdom, Canadian and Indian forces
fought them to a finish without hope of aid from outside
at a time when we were in a death struggle in Europe.
From the bases which they had wrested in South China
from the gallant Chinese armies, the Japanese brought
great land and air forces and overwhelmed Hong Kong by
Christmas Day 1941. Ginge that date our men and
women have sustained the hardships of the prison camp.
We have fought our enemies back across the
world and in the Far East now the British Navy has a
powerful foice in position to crown our tremenGOUS,
military effort, into which the whole strength and
resources of the British impice have been unstintingly
thrown by taking the surrender of the enemy in the
British Colony of Hong Kong and liberate our people
there after their long ordeal. We shall claim and
excrcise our right am duty in those respects and we
shall