Approval for re-enactment of escape from Japanese invasion

Reported by S.China Morning Post on Thursday, 12 November 2009 (on November 12, 2009)

A plan to re-enact part of the escape from Hong Kong to China by a group of soldiers during the second world war is finally set to get off the ground after receiving official support from the central government. The escape started in Ap Lei Chau on the day Hong Kong fell to the Japanese - Christmas Day 1941 - and ended 5,120 kilometres and nearly two months later in Rangoon, now called Yangon.

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