General John Joseph Pershing with Allied Commanders on grassy fields in Koblenz, Germany (city is sometimes spelled Coblenz). Buildings in the background. General Pershing and Allied Commanders on horseback review the marching troops.
British Crown Colony , Hong Kong. Chinese coolies using small hammers to break stones into gravel on a road in Victoria. Children walk on street. British officials in a building ignore an old Chinese man begging at entrance. Chinese children walking on road. Views in the Chinese district: residents squatting on the ground, cooking and eating, outside large thatch roofed dwellings. British Naval Officers in immaculate white uniforms, walk through the area. Chinese families, with small children. Chinese food vendors on sidewalks. Boats tied up at dock. Chinese workers unload cargoes from wooden boats, using manual capstans and winches and lines.
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.
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.
Coastal areas in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong. Scenes of Victoria's Southern coast. Two women being carried in sedan chairs. Woman and young girl walk through garden in vicinity of Stanley Village, and wave to photographer as they pass a fountain. Views of Repulse Bay Beach, and Repulse Bay, with its beach, surf, and beach houses.
Views from a boat moving in the Pearl River at Port of Canton (Guangzhou), in time frame of the Second Sino-Japanese War. A small island in the river. Many boats of all types: steam ferry boat; small hand-rowed passenger boats; ships and sailing vessels anchored and moored. U.S. sailors form honor guard as visitors arrive and board the USS Isabel (PY-10) serving as flagship of Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet. Seen walking along the deck, Admiral Yarnell and his Japanese and British Naval counterparts,are in formal dress uniforms. Among those seen, with Admiral Yarnell, are a Japanese Admiral and Army officer, accompanied by a diplomat, and a British Admiral conversing with a diplomat.
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