"On the 26th of February, 1918, thousands of people arrived at the Happy Valley Racecourse in Hong Kong, to watch the second day of an annual derby..."

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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/postm...
► "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/...
► "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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