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Most of the China Marines were withdrawn in November 1941, but the North China Marines in Peking and Tientsin were scheduled to be withdrawn on December 10. (All weapons and ammunition except rifles and pistols had been crated and shipped by rail to the embarkation port.) However, Imperial Japan attacked the United States on December 7, and the Marine Embassy guards, plus a fourteen man Naval medical detachment, a total of 203 men, were captured and held as slave labor until the war's end in August 1945. A 204th man, a retired officer who had been living in Peking and recalled to duty, was immediately released
In his budget address on Wednesday, finance minister Paul Chan Mo-po tacked on an extra HK$12 (US$1.5) to the price of a pack of 20 cigarettes, as part of the governments effort to bring down the smoking rate from 9.5 per cent to 7.8 per cent by 2025