20 Dec 1941, Additional notes
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Submitted by emride on Mon, 2017-12-18 19:17
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Date(s) of events described:
Sat, 20 Dec 1941
In the meantime, Colonel Tanaka was sending his advance party along the Wongneichong reservoir catchwater, above the Ridge. They reached a point above Repulse Bay Hotel soon after dawn on the 20th; they attacked, and by 9.30 the same morning, the hotel was surrounded and the garage was in enemy hands.
((Source - a dramatization of the history of the Hong Kong Volunteers, which was broadcast over Radio Hong Kong on 31st May 1954 as part of the HKVDC Centenary Celebrations))
