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Koh Yong Hong was one of a group of second- and third-generation South Korean youths who coordinated efforts to locate their compatriots scattered around in various evacuation facilities in Kobe.
One day after the quake, which struck on Jan. 17, Koh happened to see his next-door neighbor outside his parents' house in Nagata Ward and made a slight bow as usual. The neighbor then asked him, ''Can we trust you guys?''
The remarks made him think about the 1923 slaughter of thousands of Koreans and Chinese by the Japanese army and vigilante groups following the Great Kanto Earthquake in the Tokyo area. The Japanese were apparently acting on a rumor that the foreigners would stage an uprising in the chaotic aftermath of the quake.
Ishihara, der freundliche und weltoffene Bürgermeister von Tokyo hat schon letztes Jahr vorsorglich mal seine Mitbürger gewarnt, das nach dem nächsten Erdbeben die Koreaner und Chinesen zu plündern und brandschatzen anfangen würden, wenn man sie nicht alle schnell umbringt. :rolleyes:
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A similar situation existed during World War One in Belgium. British miners dug six tunnels and caverns under the German trench system, and also packed those six caverns with gunpowder. When detonated, each explosion was on the level of a tactical nuclear weapon!!
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[Some interesting comments about this effort of the British. The Royal Engineer, a Captain, was electrocuted in detonating the explosives in the caverns. Six caverns were filled with gunpowder, but only four of them detonated. And the exact location of the two unexploded caverns was lost. The general location is know, but to this day, somewhere in Belgium, are two huge caverns of explosives waiting to go off, each being equal to a tactical nuclear weapon! It is also said that Lloyd George, then Prime Minister of England, waited quietly in his study in anticipation of the detonations, as he knew the exact time when they would occur, and that the shock of the explosions could be felt as far away as London, one hundred and twenty miles away!!].
