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Major-General Francis Henry Kelly, Commander British Forces in Hong Kong, 1913–1915. The British colony of Hong Kong saw no military action during World War I (1914–1918). The biggest external threat to the colony was perceived to be the German East Asia Squadron, but the squadron was eliminated in December 1914.
According to the census of 1865, Hong Kong had a population of 125,504, of which some 2,000 were Americans and Europeans. [10] In 1914 despite an exodus of 60,000 Chinese fearing an attack on the colony during World War I, Hong Kong's population continued to increase from 530,000 in 1916 to 725,000 in 1925 and 1.6 million by 1941. [12]
Hong Kong Island (Chinese: 香港島; Jyutping: Hoeng1 gong2 dou2; Cantonese Yale: Hēunggóng dóu) is an island in the southern part of Hong Kong.The island, known originally and on road signs simply as "Hong Kong", had a population of 1,289,500 and a population density of 16,390 per square kilometre (42,400/sq mi), [2] as of 2023.
1915 map of the Hong Kong region with Kowloon Walled City listed as "Chinese Town" at the upper right-hand corner The Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory of 1898 handed additional parts of Hong Kong (the New Territories ) to Britain for 99 years, but excluded the walled city, which at the time had a population of roughly 700.
Japan occupied Hong Kong from 1941 to 1945 during World War II. [5] By the end of the war in 1945, Hong Kong had been liberated by joint British and Chinese troops and returned to British rule. [6] Hong Kong greatly increased its population from refugees from mainland China, particularly during the Korean War and the Great Leap Forward.
Hong Kong Legislative Council oath-taking controversy Hong Kong LegCo candidates' disqualification controversy: 2017: Carrie Lam: Imprisonment of Hong Kong democracy activists: 2018: Opening of Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong Express Rail Link Hong Kong section Tai Po Road bus accident Opening of the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge
Hong Kong had been a British colony since 1841, when it was occupied by British forces during the first Opium War. China’s Qing Dynasty signed it over to the British the following year in the ...
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