When the british landed in Hong Kong, was there any resistance by the Japanese. I've watched the British Pathe newsreel of the surrender, and it seems there was exchanges of fire with Japanese troops in the vicinity of central
From p.259 of The Fall Of Hong Kong by Philip Snow:
On the morning of 30 August the task force arrived off the Stanley peninsula, and towards midday they began to glide slowly through the Lei Yue Mun channel and into the ruined harbour. There was almost no sign of the expected resistance from Japanese diehards. Three Japanese boats were seen moving out of a bay on the nearby island of Lamma on an apparent suicide mission; but the British dealt with this threat briskly by bombing both them and the rest of the craft in the bay.255 Scattered shots were directed at Harcourt's flagship from the Naval Dockyard, but these were soon brought to an end after the flagship had made wireless contact with the garrison commander, Major-General Okada Umekichi. Otherwise the Japanese were quiescent.
From p.259 of The Fall Of…
From p.259 of The Fall Of Hong Kong by Philip Snow: