Japanese troops, with vehicles, horses, and supplies,moving into Manchuria. A gun crew manually pushes a field artillery piece up a steep slope in the rugged snowy landscape. Troops ride in a truck on a snow-covered street into a town. Camera shot from snow-covered street of an army truck coming head-on, and right over the camera. Army trucks following a twisting road downhill between snowy hills. Troops bundled up against the cold in the back of the trucks. A contingent of soldiers spread out and moving across a snowy field. Blowing snow and a soldier's smashed helmet on the ground. Japanese grave markers in a snowy cemetery.
Japanese care for wounded soldiers during their invasion of Manchuria . A Fokker Super Universal aircraft lands in a valley. Japanese soldiers carry wounded to the airplane. One is carried on the back of a soldier. Others are on stretchers. Inserted shot of a Kawasaki KDA-2 (Type 88 reconnaissance bomber) with engine running. More wounded being placed aboard a Fokker Super Universal. The monoplane taking off. Another KDA-2 biplane flying overhead. Wounded being placed aboard ambulances and view of several driving slowly down dirt embankment. A wounded soldier being carried on a litter into a field hospital tent. View of medical staff treating the wounded. Soldiers carrying a comrade with a bandaged leg, into a tent.
Large crowds out on roads in warm weather, waving Japanese flags to celebrate creation of Manchukuo, a new independent (Japanese puppet) State renamed from Manchuria. Japanese officers on horseback move through the crowded street between rows of local people celebrating the new Government. .People move in procession waving Japanese flags. Japanese soldiers wave from buses moving on the street. Scene of the entire town filled with celebrating people.
Rich grasslands of Mongolia .Lumbering being carried on and logs of wood being loaded onto a cart. A Mongolian man shearing a sheep for wool at a sheep ranch. Wool being collected in a cart. A group of camel graze in a field. A Caravan of camel carts moves through the grass fields.
Scenes of drought in Hailar district, Manchuria, previously known as Hulun. Camera pans across eroded cliffs showing soil depletion. Starving chicks, possibly eagle hatchlings, in a nest. A lone bird in the sky. Skeleton of livestock. A line of ox-drawn carts moving through the barren landscape.
View from hillside above the town of Hailar, Mongolia. Fairly dense concentration of houses and building are seen at first, but they thin out as the camera pans to the right. Semi-arid hillside comes into view at camera location. Trees and shrubs seen only is places that might collect some water. Otherwise all is sand dunes. An isolated structure on a hilltop. Scene shifts to horsemen herding sheep along a dirt road in town. Flag of the Russian-administered Chinese Eastern Railway. It contains the Manchukuo flag in its canton and a small hammer and sickle plus star on its field. A sign identifying the District of Hailar, in Cyrillic and Chinese. A steam locomotive pulling a train into the station. A cosmopolitan mixture of people gathered on the platform. Some women holding parasols. A uniformed Russian guard, of the Railway company, is seen among several Chinese officers on the platform. People boarding the train. Women looking out the train windows.
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