HIS385H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Swire Group, Taikoo Dockyard, Hongkong And Yaumati Ferry
Document Summary
Japanese occupation of hong kong: significant improvements between 1910s-1930s. Inspectors, of vernacular schools, 1920s: government subsidies, 1930s, 1931: 50% literate for 5-13 years chinese, no free compulsory universal education, physical developments, 1000km^2 added, 1898, kowloon from periphery (military) to center (trade) full use of harbour - 1902 bridge proposal: 1903 proposal to develop kowloon and new territories, 1930: cross-harbour pipeline for new territories fresh water to hong kong. Japanese expansion in china: mukden incident, september 18, 1931 northeast provinces puppet state. It is most unwise to increase the loss we shall suffer there. Instead of increasing the garrison it ought to be reduced to a symbolic scale. January 7, 1941: br. view: hong kong as un-defendable outpost, summer 1941: evacuation of european women and children . Instead of british they used european, to exclude the chinese which were treated as british subjects.
