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Japanese attack on Manchuria, China, Hong Kong and Corregidor. Japanese industry and training of children for war.
Japanese laborers work hard in various factories creating war materiel, armament, airplanes, tanks. Men and women at work in war production, together with child labor. Japanese make war preparations for World War 2. Japanese soldiers on parade and Japanese tanks seen passing in review. Japanese children being trained and doing various physical exercises. Japanese young boys perform drills and war combat training, calisthenics, and classroom testing. Japanese youth and soldiers learning various martial arts and hand to hand combat. War in Manchuria. Newspaper headlines show the attack of Japan on Hong Kong and Corregidor. Japanese soldiers seen fighting in wars. Scenes of war devastation and dead civilians Manchuria and various areas where Japan has attacked. Bodies loaded onto carts and dead in streets. Japanese officer leading Japanese solders in a banzai cheer.
Japanese soldiers occupy the International Settlement in Shanghai after Pearl Harbor attack in World War II. Battle for Hong Kong
Japanese soldiers in Shanghai, China occupying the International Settlement following the attack on Pearl Harbor, in World War 2.. Japanese military trucks loaded with soldiers enter the north end of the Bund passing by the British Consulate. Japanese flag flutters from the top of the HSBC headquarters. A Japanese guard stands at the entrance to the HSBC headquarters next to a sign in Japanese and English that the premises have been occupied. Japanese Marines march on the street. Buildings along the side of the street. A soldier hands out warning notices writing in Chinese to a crowd of Chinese people explaining the occupation. The very end show Japanese troops in Kowloon shelling Hong Kong Island which is visible in the background.
British Crown Colony, Hong Kong. Victoria shoreline seen from harbor. Views of Hong Kong from the electric cable tram.
British Crown Colony of Hong Kong. Views of Victoria shoreline from ship in the harbor. A Chinese Junk boat sailing in Hong Kong Harbor. Woman poses on hilltop overlooking harbor. Views from on board the Peak Tram, an electric cable tram that traverses the mountain overlooking Hong Kong harbor, and Victoria. Kowloon seen across the harbor. Views descending into Victoria proper.
Bustling commerce on crowded street in Chinese district of British Crown Colony, Hong Kong
Daily life in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong. A narrow street in Hong Kong Island, jammed with commercial activity. Street musicians play bamboo instruments and sing. Chinese men with queues seen on the street. A girl sits on sidewalk, picking lice from the hair of a little boy. A girl carries a squirming baby on her back. Chinese pedestrians crowd the street. Signs and clothes hang from almost every store front on the street. A woman carries two children, one in front and one on her back. A Western civilian talking with an old Chinese shopkeeper. Chinese men sit on a bench and smoke. A young woman splits wood into kindling. A British sailor, carrying a large camera, walks through crowd. The Western civilian, now holding a camera at his side, poses next to a Sikh Hong Kong policeman, as local people gather around them. The Westerner sits with a sidewalk vendor, discussing a purchase. Three Chinese girls wearing Cheongsams walking together. A Chinese woman being carried in a sedan chair holds her hand up to hide her face from the camera ("evil eye"). Customers and merchants discuss fabrics. Countless porters carry goods through the street on poles. The "westerner" rides by on a sedan chair.
The routine life in Hong Kong shadowed by the Chinese communists after their takeover of Mainland China
View of Victoria, British Hong Kong, as the population awaits possible challenge from Chinese Communist forces only several miles away. Victoria Peak is seen in the background. A Chinese man purchases copy of the Hong Kong Standard newspaper from vendor holding sign that reads: "Reds Offer Diplomatic Relations." British troops march with their packs, as they prepare for possible defense of the Crown Colony. Hong Kong police check persons entering at the border. British troops prepare artillery positions. British Comet Cruiser tanks maneuver. British Mk XVI Supermarine Spitfire aircraft with engines running on airfield. A flight of four Spitfires in formation over the city.
Japanese troops surrender in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Nanking China at end of World War 2
Victory over Japan at end of World War 2. Japanese troops surrender Singapore and Hong Kong to British troops in Pacific Theater. Aerial view of city in Singapore. Allied ships in nearby harbor. Allied soldiers of Britain landing and marching on streets in Singapore. Next scene shows ships of British fleet seen in waters at Hong Kong. Low-flying aerial views of port areas and buildings of Hong Kong. British Navy combat teams move from building to building in small groups, flushing snipers from alleys, streets, and buildings. A British soldier rests a machine gun on an elevated porch and fires at an enemy sniper position. Several Japanese soldiers surrender to British forces. Next scene is in Nanking, China. View of officials gathering in Nanking for Japanese surrender ceremony at the Central Military Academy, which had been the enemy Japanese headquarters during the war.
