Under Communist Chinese leadership, the Hong Kong-Kowloon Brigade of the East River Column staged fierce underground resistance against the Japanese.
One of five brigades of the East River Column, the Hong Kong Brigade, had some 500 members at its height.
It was made up of six companies covering Tai Po, Sai Kung, Yuen Long, Lantau, Urban Districts and the Marine Sector.
Wu Kau Tang in Sha Tau Kok and Chek Keng in Sai Kung were the guerrilla stamping-grounds.
The brigade's tasks were to rescue intellectuals and foreign prisoners of war trapped in Hong Kong, eliminate local bandits, sabotage the Japanese army's infrastructure, and assassinate Japanese officers and Chinese collaborators.
Credit : History Museum of HK.
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