Point of view shot from rear car of railroad train being pulled by a steam locomotive over the South Manchuria Railway in the Japanese-controlled South Manchuria Railway Zone. View of railroad tracks stretching out over plains and flatlands behind, and smoke from the locomotive drifts behind. The train is stopped at a sign reading Manchuria (in Cyrillic) and in Chinese. The locomotive emits steam. Camera pans to a railroad station building at the side of the railroad. Next is seen, a small Japanese graveyard containing several stone monuments and a number of upright grave markers. The ground is snow-covered. Change of scene shows two groups of high-flying military aircraft in V formations. The next scene is an aerial view from an airplane flying over a river valley surrounded by rugged terrain. Next is seen a column of Japanese Army vehicles moving across snow-covered terrain. An armored car moves ahead of the column. (It is a Secherad-Panzerkraftwagen Sumida, Model 2590, armored car.) A long column, of mostly army trucks, follows. Japanese soldiers, carrying rifles with fixed bayonets,escort a soldier carrying their unit colors, furled and in a case. An informal group of Japanese soldiers, watch from nearby. A long column of Japanese infantry, move across desert terrain. A troop column interspersed with vehicles, continues over rugged desert terrain. A column of military vehicles. Aerial view of Japanese bombers in loose V formation. One circles slowly. An unidentified Japanese twin engine high wing monoplane (possibly amphibian) with open cockpit, drops a torpedo, or bomb. Sudden scene change to a bomb falling and explosions on the ground as bombs strike. Pursuit aircraft maneuvering. Three Japanese Mitsubishi 2MB1 - Type 87 bombers in formation, dropping many bombs. Aerial views of bombs striking, and ground views of explosions.
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.