Poor children in China. A group of children sitting outside a closed shop on a street. The children watching two street entertainers performing on the street. Shabbily dressed children watching the performers.
Bombing by Japanese forces in Shanghai as part of the so-called "January 28 Incident" or "Shanghai Incident." Chinese civilians rush on streets of the Bund during time of attacks by aircraft from Japan. A streetcar goes by and pedestrians quickly cross streets. Japanese Major Harada talks to Japanese pilots of 8th Japanese flying squadron at Japanese airfield. Japanese swift aircraft drops bombs on North Station and destroy ancient native Chapei section of Shanghai, China. Views of wrecked city, dead bodies on road. Civilians leaving in hand carts and trucks. Civilians crossing garden bridge. Chinese troops take up defensive positions behind sandbags in bombed area of city. Bagpipes announce arrival of Argyll and Sutherland Highland Regiments from the United Kingdom. United States Marines present and on patrol at American Concession, guarding the lives of nationals in Shanghai.
View of Nanking road commercial district, in Shanghai, China. Smoke billows from Treasury building on fire, in the distance. Camera moves to the scene of fire, where firemen raise mobile ladders against the building, and carry hoses up to fight the fire at higher levels. Scene shifts to distant view with smoke engulfing the area. Local people, who gather to watch the firefighters, are controlled by policemen. View of fireman climbing from a hook and ladder truck, carrying hose upward. More views of crowd and policemen. A fireman reaching an open porch area of the building, carrying hose. He is followed by another fireman. View of hose connected to hydrant, leaking somewhat at the connection. Two firemen on ground directing a strong stream of water from their hose. Smoke pouring from the burning building, and drifting across the street.
Japanese 9th Division regular army troops marching outside a compound in Shanghai, China. Soldiers with bayonets sit on top of a moving truck. Soldiers hold a Japanese flag while sitting on top of supplies from a moving truck. Japanese soldiers cross the Huangpu Creek bridge. Soldiers with bayonets marching in the International Settlement of Shanghai. Kenkichi Ueda, Commander in Chief of the Japanese Imperial Army standing in front of a barracks. General Ueda and soldiers enter the barracks together. Soldiers firing artillery at Shanghai. Shanghai being bombarded. Japanese gunners pull artillery back into place with ropes after recoil drives cannon backwards. An artillery fires more shells. A burning house. Japanese soldier riding a motorcycle with sidecar. A Japanese soldier uses a pair of binoculars. Thick smoke forms over Shanghai. Japanese soldiers running in Shanghai. Soldiers running past a tank. Type 87 Model 25 Vickers Crossley "Dowa" armored car equipped with two Vickers 303 machine guns moving down street. Inside view of Type 87 Model 25 armored car. Japanese soldiers firing with machine guns next Type 87 Model 25. A dead Chinese man lying on the snow. Japanese soldiers firing with machine guns beside a tank. Japanese soldiers standing on a bridge. Japanese soldiers capture Chinese spies dressed as women and farmers. Two Japanese soldiers support an injured comrade. Chinese captives kneeling beside Japanese soldiers at train depot. Chinese refugees leaving Shanghai on foot. Chinese locals stand on boats sailing out of Shanghai. Panicking crowds leaving Shanghai en masse.
A demonstration against Japanese attack on China, in Chicago Illinois gets violent. Policemen grab and arrest the demonstrators. Policemen look for a gunmen in crowd who shot four policemen and a woman. They capture him and stand around him. (The captured man is Communist Stephen Chuck.)
Several Chinese families are made homeless. The squatter huts built in unauthorized centers are torn down. The helpless families stand by as the public work crew under the supervision of law enforcement officers move their belongings into the open.