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By 1940, the British determined to reduce the Hong Kong Garrison to only a symbolic size. British defence studies concluded that Hong Kong would be extremely hard to defend in the event of a Japanese attack, but in the mid-1930s work began on improvements to defences including along the Gin Drinkers' Line.
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On 21 October 1938 the Japanese occupied Canton (Guangzhou) and Hong Kong was surrounded. 2.1.2 Hong Kong and Singapore Royal Artilleryīritain first thought of Japan as a threat with the ending of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance in 1921, a threat that increased throughout the 1930s with the escalation of the Second Sino-Japanese War.Within a week the defenders abandoned the mainland and less than two weeks later, with their position on the island untenable, the colony surrendered. The Hong Kong garrison consisted of British, Indian and Canadian units, also the Auxiliary Defence Units and Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps (HKVDC). On the same morning as the attack on Pearl Harbor, forces of the Empire of Japan attacked the British Crown colony of Hong Kong, without declaring war against the British Empire. The Battle of Hong Kong (8–25 December 1941), also known as the Defence of Hong Kong and the Fall of Hong Kong, was one of the first battles of the Pacific War in World War II.