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Mr Peterson recalls how the Canadians were trained following their arrival in Hong Kong.
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Interviewer: With the word that you'd gotten that the war with Japan was imminent, what did you think of your chances there at Hong Kong?
I didn't think very highly of them for one thing, previous to the onset of the battle, some of the British officers weren't satisfied with the way the Canadians were, were saluting them on the street or when they were meeting them or anything like this. And so they were a, a lot of the Canadians in Sham Shui Po Camp were put on the parade square and were being taught basically how to salute, how to march, how to dress properly etcetera, when we should have been in the hills learning the terrain that we were possibly going to fight over. And, just poor procedure, poor, poor preparations, I would say.