9/4/2026
Weekly Weird News

Gin Drinkers Line in Hong Kong

Filed by Max the Cryptid Reporter
Gin Drinkers Line in Hong Kong
Stretching 18km between modern day Kwai Chung (then known as Gin Drinkers Bay) to Port Shelter in Sai Kung, the Gin Drinkers Line was a massive defensive structure built by the British army, dubbed as 'the Maginot line of the East'. Construction on the line began in 1936, and took 2 years to complete. The lynch-pin of the entire line was the Shing Mun Redoubt, comprised of a number of pillboxes joined by an intricate network of tunnels, together with the Command Post and the principal artillery
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