The Second Sino-Japanese War begins in China. Aerial shots of the Great Wall of China, near Beijing. Scenes of war between Japanese and Chinese troops in Beijing (Peiping), China. Gunners fire artillery on the field. Explosion and smoke from artillery shell explosion. Chinese civilians evacuate and leave Beijing. Japanese troops marching and hold Japanese flag. Japanese soldiers ride donkeys and horses. Chinese troops and cavalry on the streets and in fields. Chinese General reviews new troops. The General gives green signal to squadron of fighter planes at an airfield. A Chinese general (likely Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek) watch Chinese fighter planes take off. The fighter planes take off from the airfield.
View of the Forbidden Palace in Beijing (formerly known as Peking or Peiping), China. Modern buildings stand alongside historical structures in China. A modern Chinese building in Shanghai, China. Pedestrians walking in the Bund district of Shanghai. Streets of Shanghai at night. Neon signs light the streets. Chinese primary school and university students engage in various extracurricular activities. children come out of school building and doing organized game at the playground. Older children perform Calisthenics. Schoolchildren and teachers dancing outdoors. Chinese boys engage in rough play. Students, mostly girls, and tutors leave building at the University. Men walk into hills with spades to plant new trees.
Southwest and West China. Map of China. Riverside village shows truck crossing on ferry. Mountains in area. Intricate bridge crossing river.
A Japanese warship sails on rough sea. The Japanese Rising Sun Flag waving. Barrel of a ship artillery. Chinese characters displayed at the Headquarters of Japanese Naval Landing Party in Shanghai, China. Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) Type 87 Crossley armored cars driving out of a garage. Vickers Crossley armored cars driving in China. Japanese infantry marching on a field and crossing a river on foot. Tanks crossing a river. Japanese troops move horses and supplies on a pontoon bridge and road. Calvary passing through corn field. Soldiers view a mountain. Japanese troops with camouflage helmets running. Japanese gunners firing artillery from fields. Infantry charging. A soldier charging with a bugle.
Nationalist Chinese school books with anti-Japanese propaganda. Slate reads “Slogans in school books: “Down with Japan” “Oust the Japanese””. Schoolbook depicts anti-Japanese propaganda. Illustration shows Japanese soldiers aiming their bayonets at the Chinese. Another children’s schoolbook. A cartoon with Japanese invaders depicted as tigers. Chinese men taming a Japanese tiger in bed. An anti-Japanese pamphlet circulating in China. Anti-Japanese newspaper headlines posted in public display case on sidewalk in China. Chinese men reading newspapers posted on outdoor display boards on sidewalk.
Montage with graphics sells Japanese propaganda claiming Japanese hatred as cause for Sino-Japanese War. Newspapers declaring the non-aggression pact between Republic of China and the Soviet Union. Animated map depicting how the Communist Soviet Union can encroach China’s territories. Narrator claims “It is in order to stop this power of evil, a real everlasting peace in Asia that Japan’s soldiers and sailors are giving their lives,” Japanese Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe reads a speech defending the Sino-Japanese War.
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