HONG KONG DEFENCES
INSPECTED BY FAR EASTERN COMMANDER CONFIDENCE IN PREPARATIONS. WILL NOT BE CAPTURED IN FEW DAYS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.0 a.m.) HONG KONG, December 27. Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, Commander-in-Chief in the Far East, has arrived and toured the defences. He stated: “Anyone who thinks Hong Kong can be captured in three or four days has got an erroneous impression.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 December 1940, Page 5
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