Japanese soldiers in Kiukiang (Jiujiang), Jiangxi, China during the second Sino-Japanese war. They stage mock war exercises. Soldiers fire rifles and machine guns from a trench. The soldiers come down a hill. The quarters of General Shunroku Hata, Commander-in-Chief of Expeditionary Forces in Central China. General Hata talks with General Hamada, Staff Officer of the Press and Propaganda Section. Exterior of the gateway to General Hata's quarters. Japanese Consul Komori and Japanese citizens of Kiukiang gather at Consul's residence to pay respect to the Yasukuni Shrine (3 Chome-1-1 Kudankita, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 102-0073, Japan) in Tokyo. They bow towards the location of the Imperial Palace, in Tokyo, where the Japanese emperor is "supposedly" bowing.
Japanese officers in Kiukiang, China during the Second Sino Japanese War. Quarters of General Shinroku Hata, Commander in Chief of Expeditionary Forces in Central China. General Hata talks with Colonel Hamada, staff officer of the press and propaganda section. Hata and Hamada stand. Exteriors of gateway to General Hata's quarters. Japanese Colonel Komori and Japanese citizens of Kiukiang gathered in front of Consul's residence to pay respects at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. They bow towards the Imperial Palace.
Film opens showing British Shanghai Light Horse 'A' Company parading along Bubbling Well Road in Shanghai, China, past crowds who have turned out in numbers to cheer for the International battalions of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps (SVC). Visible, in the background, is the clock tower on the clubhouse of the Shanghai Racing Club. View shifts to the reviewing stand, where Mr. Cornell Franklin, Civil Commandant and Chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Council, stands in front of military officers, Vice-Admiral Sir Percy Noble, Major General Telfer-Smollett, Colonel Price, Colonel Andreini, Lieutenant-Colonel Perretier, and Commander Takeda. Next, a contingent from 1st Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders, shouldering rifles with fixed bayonets, execute eyes left as they march past the reviewing stand. A large crowd of spectators watches the parade from a stands set up near the reviewing stand. Next, Armored cars of the SVC Armoured Car Company, drive past in a column. Photographers take pictures. Japanese naval officers are seen in full dress uniforms, watching the parade. Led by a mounted officer, another formation of SVC soldiers march past, shouldering rifles with fixed bayonets.
People walk on the road and leave the city in hand driven rickshaws at Hankow, China. Bombs dropped on the other side of the river. People wear traditional headgear sitting and standing on the doorsteps of a building. Men look at the sky. Bomb dropped on the hill and people take shelter in a boat. Boats in the river and flag atop building. Scenes of destruction and man try to stop fire. People move and take injured humans on the stretchers.
Jewish refugees arrive in Shanghai,China. Jewish men, women and children flee from Nazi German oppression. They arrive by boat and pass through customs. A group of refugees seated at table, drink soup.
Boys receive training in Manchuria, China. Chinese and Manchukuoan boys are trained for steel mill work under Japanese supervision. The boys exercise at a factory campus. They practice marching. Factory smoke in the background.