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Hong Kong really took off from a base of being the most looted city in the world—there wasn’t a piece of wood to be seen in Hong Kong when I got back from Shanghai where I’d been a prisoner of war. And the whole city was, well, there was one cable across the harbour, there was some light in one or two buildings on this side (Hong Kong-side) and there was some light at the Peninsula Hotel, which was the Japanese headquarters. But other than that there wasn’t any light at all in the place. And it was black. Rats all over the place and the complete and utter destruction you might say, on the Peak. There wasn’t a single house that was habitable at all. No doors, no windows. People had left their dogs and big dogs had eaten the little dogs and become so wild that they had to get police with guns to shoot these dogs because it was so dangerous. And in fact when you look from that ruin it was and how it became one of the most important cities in the world, it’s really, it’s a miracle. But that was done largely through hard work and I think the fact that Hong Kong didn’t wait to say well somebody else must pay for this. We sat down immediately, let’s get busy, let’s get things going. It is normal here to work hard. It’s normal here to take work as something which one is given and should do and wants to do with a view to trying to climb, get higher each time, do something better. This is the point of view of the Hong Epilogue 10 未命名5:8 294 NOT THE SLIGHTEST CHANCE: THE DEFENCE OF HONG KONG Kong citizen generally and that was the main element which caused it to grow the way it has grown.”1 NOTICE Will all persons having Knowledge of the whereAbouts of the Graves of Any Allied Service PerSonnel who were killed in Battle, died of wounds, died in Hospital or internment camps, Or under any other circumStances what-so-ever please Communicate with MAJOR J. C. RIDDELL, HQ LAND FORCES, VICTORIA BARRACKS .2 HK GARRISON CASUALTIES True Figures Will Never Be Sorted Out3 未命名5:8 ...

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