A short documentary about the unusually deadly fire which took place at the Happy Valley Racecourse in Hong Kong in 1918...
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*CHAPTERS:* 🔖
► 00:00 - Intro
► 00:39 - Background
► 04:19 - The Happy Valley Racecourse Fire
► 09:14 - The Aftermath
*MUSIC:* 🎵
► "Glass Pond" by Public Memory
*SOURCES:* 📑
► "When 600 died in fire at Hong Kong racecourse 100 years ago" by Chris Wood, published by the South China Morning Post, February 2018. Link: https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/2134472/when-600-died-fire-hong-kong-racecourse-100
► "The Happy Valley Race Course Fire of 1918" by Roy Eric Xavier, published by Far East Currents/UC Berkeley. Available via: https://macstudies.net/rexavier/PDFs/The%20Happy%20Valley%20Race%20Course%20Fire%20of%201918.pdf
► "Death at the Races: The Portuguese Presence during the Happy Valley Fire of 1918" by Roy Eric Xavier, published by the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch, 2013. Available via: https://www.jstor.org/stable/23891238
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