When Hong Kong fell to the Japanese in 1941 the statue, which had been erected in 1897 to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, was also treated with scant respect.
這座建於一八九七年，為慶祝英國維多利亞女王六十登基大典而建的塑像，在一九四一年日軍攻陷香港時也曾遭劫。