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A liberal education in the origin. typos, and varieties of beards, mustaches, and sideburns will be provided by "Parnell" now being produced at M-C-M with Joan Crawford and Clark Gable According to Max Factor, Holly wood's famous make-up artist who is supplying wigs and beards for the production, almost every possible variety of hair ornament was worn by men of the time of 1880 in England and Ireland, where the action takes place. The "Sluggor" type of beard is a straggly tuft of hair under the chin, worn by sailors and pugilists. "Van Dyke" was worn by lawyers and diplomats. A full set of whiskers was favoured by doctors, white scientists and surgeons wore luxuriant side burns. Mustaches were worn by politicians and soldiers. Parnell, played by Clark Gable, will be clean-shaven, although Parnell, himself, actually wore a beard as was the custom of his time.

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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, DECEMBER

To-Day In The Past

5,

1936.

THE WARTIME MUNITIONS EXPLOSION THAT REDUCED A GREAT CITY

TO A MASS

tongues

OF DEBRIS

O-MORROW is the the deck, wrapping long, curling The molor Engine Patricia re-

station,

about the superstructure, anopping travelling northward at the time of world's greatest muni- up the rigging and masts.

the explosion, and the heavy ap- was twisted" to a mass of paratus tion explosion."

The Imo, out of control, driftedbroken metal. Only one of the crew helplessly about the harbour.

escaped with his life. in less than thirty seconds, death On that day nineteen years ago,

In Richmond men, women, and In his little ofice a telegraph was dead across hits keys; claimed or set its fatal seal on more children poured out from homes, operator than fifteen hundred people, eight business places, and shops to witness the last message he sent out delayed Inbound train at n suburban were Injured, property the thrilling spectacle of a blazing an thousand

ship,

The Halifax terminal of the rall- Witnesnes saw a small bont, Alled valued at four million pounds was destroyed at Halifax, Nova Scotia.

An entire section of the city was with men lowered from the side of road was situated near the Norrows. It was rowed The heavy roof of the building col- reduced to debris, and within the Mont Blanc.

scores of radius of two miles the stricken and frantically towards the Dartmouth lapsed, entombing some torn landscape resembled the war-

employees and waiting passengers. But that lost message saved a train. tom sectors of France and Belgium. Then through the flames another The Acadia sugar refinery, valued where for three wears the great guns man was seen on the deck, wildly at more than one million pounds,

waving his arms end calling. The was, operating part time, of war huid. found their range.

It was war-time regime which little bont put back, the survivor was eleven men on duty were killed and ruled that all cast-bound freight taken off and the ship's boat re- the plant utterly demolished. must call at Hailfox for convoys sumed its journey towards Dart- and which, brought the French mouth. The crew of the Mont Blane munition ship Mont Blane into the had left their ship and all escaped harbour that morning.

THE FATAL CARGO

share.

with their lives.

TERRIFIC DEAT

HURLED 24 MILES

and the

Hillls' foundry and factory, built of concrete, was wiped out. Fifty- two men perished in its ruins, Two In Bedford Basin, somewhat to At the mercy of the tide the blaz-escaped,

Hundreds of children In the the north of Halifax Harbour and ing ship drifted closer and closer to schools were killed or injured. About approachable by sea only through the wharves, and was getting don-one hundred and thirty persons were the Narrows, natural gateway gerously near the, Naval Dockyards, blinded. formed by the jutting shures of the the only refiting station on the

and and Dartmouth town, freighters North Atlantic coast avaliable to

transports lay at anchor awalt-Allled ships at that me.

Two boatloads of men, sailors from ing the order to slip quietly down

to the harbour mouth some dark 11.M.S. Highflyer, put off from the night, where would be found wall-dockyard with orders to try to get Ing the convoys which would guard line aboard the ship and tow her them through the submarine infested to a position where she would not European waters.

be a menace to shipping.

The collision

Part of the anchor of the Afont Blane was hurled two and a half miles away and embedded in the earth on the shores. of the North- 1,256 Arm. It weighed

west

Bounds.

One of the guns was carried in the found few opposite direction and was On the morning of December 6,

about mile and a quarter 1917, there was one ship in Bed-minutes before nine o'clock. Every near Albros Lake. ford Basin which did not need afinstant the flames spread with in-

Five churches, a cotton factory,

occurred

I

awny

convoy. A Belgian relief ship: the creasing ferocity, and the hent three schools, a graving dock, sugar Imo, freighted with food and cloth became terrific. At six minutes past refinery, two breweries, and an engi- ing and bound for Antwerp, made nine the tortured sides of the metal neering plant were wiped out. The ready all her mooring shortly slip could no longer withstand the after eight o'clock.

strain.

On her eldes in grent letters "Belgion Reliet" was painted, By special arrangements with the Ger- mans a relict ship passed unmolested through the submarine aren,

BENZOL CARGO

At the same time the squat grey Frenchman, the Mont Blanc, which hind been lying at the harbour en- trance all night, began her slow and careful progress towards the basin She was loaded to the deck with plerlo acid. - wet and dry, and

T.N.T.

naval and military hospital was shattered nd property damage to With a roar which was heard the dockyard was appofling. for many miles the Mont Blanel Men slut their cars to the pitiful blew up, her metal hull torn into cries of those entombed in burning thousands of pieces and hurled buildings and forced themselves on through the air to scatter over the towards their own homes, conscious town and city.

that their families might be trapped in the same manner.

The earth rocked and the seaboard rose to a great height and flooded was torn into ginnt waves which

FALSE REPORT

the wharves and lower streets; Then, the report was sent out that houses and factories fell like houses a second explosion was Imminent, of cards, ships buckled and sank, that fire was approaching the muni buildings collapsed.

tion dump. Every one was ordered

Within a radius of two miles not to leave their houses.

with tri-nitro-toluot-the deadly. A building remained intact, sides. From all parts of the city men und were torn out, roofs ripped off, men women flocked to the open spaces on and women were dung bodily into citadel hlil and the commons, or the maws of death. Some fow had, made their ways from the centre of spectacular escapes...

Dartmouth to the country roads.

On her deck she carried a cargo of-benzol, put aboard at the last minute just before she killed" rio Sheepshead Bay, New York. Bolh the Mont Blanc" and the 'Imo tafried Halifax pilots.

160-MILE SHOCK

Scarcely a pane of glass in build-

Had it not been for this second and unnecessary warning many more lives might have been saved. Gradually the fear of the second catastrophe died down, and the res-

All along the Halifax waterfront ings within four miles of the explo- shipping was brisk, practically every sion remained unbroken, damage cue work went on. It continued all wharf was occupied, and in the was done to buildings five miles day and throughout the following stream-athercraft lay at anchor away, and in the north-end streets dayɛ---- awaiting their turn at a berth,

the dead and flying lay. It was a glorious day of brilliant sunshine, with a touch of frost in the air and on the streets a powder ing of snow hinted at approaching winter.

The Imo cleared the Narrows, and sailed along the Dartmouth

shore,

The Mont Blane, passing the lower section of the city, was quickly nearing her Just below Richmond,

the northern-section- of- Halifax.”

The two ships cane Into colli- slon, the Imo striking the metal ship thirteen feet abaft the bow and penetrating the side.

DRIFTING HELPLESSLY

AU through the afternoon. and Death had come in every coneely-night of December 6 weary men and able form to men, women ond women matic the pilgrimage to mor- - children, who were instantly killed, gue, and hospital, shelter and relief and within the fallen buildings many bases, seeking missing members of were trapped, in some cases to die their familles, a terrible death in the names which followed the overturning of stoves and furnaces.

In Truro, sixty miles distant, the church and school bells tinkled, and

Temporary hospitals had been opened to care for the injured, for there were not enough beds in the hospitals to accommodate those who were hurt..

the shock was felt on the shores of Nurses and doctors, their ranks Newfoundland 100 miles away: depleted by the demands of war, There were actually two shocks, one worked frantically, handicapped by carried by the air, the second by the the lack of sufficient antiseptics to water."

cope with such a disaster. The Highflyer crews were never On the night or

December seen again, men on shipboard and on furious blizzard came on, and for the wharf were swept into the boil-nys

the snowstorms continued,

Ing

Ca

sen by the great tidal wave hampering the recovery of the dead, The damage to the Ime was not which rose as the vessel exploded, adding to the users of the home

the Imo was driven high on the less. Dartmouth shore, 'all, her crew and spark

her pilot being killed.

serious, but the result of the colll- sion was terrific. Either generated from friction fired the benzol, or the shock broke the con- tainers and the seeping liquid flowed to the galley, which was on deck, and there ignited.

Somehow in a surprisingly short time Halifax revived, system : order was restored.

.HE SAVED A TRAIN

For months the remains of Rich- There was no fire floot in Hall-mind amouldered sullenly. In April fax, and when the Mont Blanc ap-1918 the last body was brought out Fire broke out within few proached the wharves A business from Richmond, and in the early seconds, and, carried by the stream- man sent in a call for the fire ap-spring the work of reconstruction ing benzol, was soon racing along paratus.

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