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274:, a businessman who was an alumnus of the school. In 1992 a landslide at Mount Parish caused the death of a driver, who was buried alive in his car at Kennedy Road. The landslide prompted the rebuilding of six classrooms, to be reopened in 1998. In 2003 the music room was rebuilt into a six-storey complex. A plan to rebuild the hall was proposed in 2011. Construction work is undergoing. The old hall will be replaced with a six-storey complex, doubling its original size in terms of land mass. 283: 291: 143: 22: 238: 307:
Queen's Road East and Kennedy Road. Most of the portals were filled in after the war, leaving only three portals which are currently accessible by related government staff, those with numbers 72, 80 and 81. Surveys made in the late 1970s and early 1980s revealed that the tunnels are divided into three levels, with connecting slopes between them.
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In the 1960s and 70s, a total of 55 cubic metres of radioactive waste was disposed of inside the ARP tunnels. The waste in the tunnels caused some safety concerns. In 1991, a Government report recommended the transfer of the waste to a special dedicated handling facility. On 19 January 2001 a man was
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in 1941. Like the other 28 ARP tunnels in Hong Kong, the purpose was to provide protection for citizens from air raids by the Japanese Air Force. The total length of the tunnels is 1.8 km, with two ventilation shafts and 13 portals numbered from 71 to 83, along the slope beside Stubbs Road,
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warned that the advancing Japanese forces might use the ARP tunnels for infiltration. The next day, which was Christmas Day, his dispatch reported at noon that Japanese artillery opened up at a large scale, and hand-to-hand fighting was reported by the defence forces on Mount Parish. Soon Mount
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found within the tunnels. He was examined at the scene by health physicists, and no radioactivity was found on his body and clothing. After that the Government built a new radioactive waste storage facility on
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still stands at the top of the mount and covers an area of 20,000 square metres (220,000 sq ft). It was completed and officially opened on 27 September 1955 by the then Governor
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took over the site of the Naval Hospital on Mount Shadwell. In the early 1950s the Infectious Diseases Hospital was demolished in order to make way for a new campus of
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that no further military resistance was possible, and the Governor surrendered to the Japanese, ending the Battle.
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in Wan Chai, which was running at a loss, using the money obtained by selling the hospital ship,
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An extension to the campus was completed in 1987 and named Gordon Wu Hall, after
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Parish fell into Japanese hands. The defence forces then fought around
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Index


Chinese
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping
Wan Chai
Queen's Road East
Kennedy Road
Stubbs Road

Royal Navy
Seaman's Hospital
HMS Melville
Mount Shadwell
yue
Vice-Admiral
Charles Shadwell
Commander-in-Chief on the China Station
Commodore
John E. Parish
Second World War
Hong Kong Government
air raid protection tunnels
Japanese Army
Battle of Hong Kong
Central
Ruttonjee Sanatorium
Wah Yan College, Hong Kong

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