the fearful beginning of a new kind of war first mass bombing from the air of a helpless a billion population fire these innocent chinese men women and children to die but needs a hail of japanese bombs to find the answer to this question when the first understand something about china and japan china is land china is people chinese history goes back for more than four thousand here that's a long time it was only one hundred sixty eight years ago that washington crossed the delaware only four hundred fifty two years  thirty seven hundred years of taxes the pyramids were built but more than four thousand years ago the chinese empire was already in existence and more important so was the chinese civilization civilization of art and learning caravans back and forth to the west tibet the icy roof of the world its borders encompassing the eastern end of the himalayan mountains the mystery land the feel of  of making porcelain and as we all know they invented gunpowder as a weapon of war celebrate their holidays and religious festival great train just taken place why is why have the chinese when all their four thousand years of history of never waged an aggressive war and been forced to fight the fight and die by the millions because china is land the conquest of manchuria are all materials phase two the absorption of china for man power piece by piece so as not to arouse the rest of the world phase three a triumphant sweep to the south  much less the world there were two main reasons for this in the first place modern china in spite of its age old history was like the broken pieces of a jigsaw puzzle each piece controlled by a different ruler each with reason lies in the uses each country made of our western civilization let's see what china you will notice that this is a very old piece of film actually it is more than thirty years old and it shows a winning for himself in chinese history a secure place as george washington has an hour and he and his followers chose the cornerstone of their new republic chinese words that echo those of another believer in democracy the people by the people and to make these principles become reality they built more schools and college they established scholarships so that their young men and women could go forth to the universities of america and europe and bring back to their own country other western ideas and this new generation returned to china with new techniques of industry architects science m they built more hospitals to free their people from the blight of disease they introduced compulsory education they laid down as essential to support freedom for which we fight today freedom of expression and a network of highways began to spread beyond the railroad line into the deep interior after leaving the montage for centuries china was beginning to use or buy a store of raw material soon the tools and machines of the new factories were delivering the goods and products for china's new economy but the chinese believed in using the best of western civilization for the progress of their country and while they were building this new nation just a day and a half by steamer across the yellow sea lay japan for years japan and deliberately copied military weapons and industrial techniques in other countries for years japan under the pretext the blacking raw materials for industry had been buying in every corner of the world materials not only to build this war machine but materials which could be stored defeated in the war of conquest they were planning for years while other nations were trying to outlaw war by reducing armament pacific that japan fortified in violation of all international trading the is where the reasons why it was possible for japan only one twentieth of size of china and only one sex per population of china china was still too remote for the chinese of the south to care what happened to their kinsmen in the north using the step by step technique a few months later the japs different package shanghai the chinese resistance was so great they hastily called that the law waited another year and then struck in the north again carving the province of gave a lot of china problems this too they got away with the world criticized the chinese protested but still the japs got what they wanted another piece of china and without a war on their hands and to rule over manchuria and you know the still stood in the great wall built by their ancestors more than two thousand years earlier and stretching for fourteen hundred miles across mountain desert to protect themselves from the barbarians of the north even be stopped by people unless the people are united and by nineteen thirty seven the unification of china was making such progress the japs got worried the one weapon they could not permit china was unity they would strike again before china could become a nation this time it'd be a big fight five more northern provinces out of the heart of china at the united states embassy and china's military attache for a number of years with colonel william mayer let him tell you what happened first thing the japs did to prepare their usual fake alibi this time it wasn't the damage where we tried as it had been in manchuria nine hundred thirty one a jap soldier disappear obviously been kidnapped by the instant chinese  to just unorganized this new conquest a peace loving japanese didn't want a war if they could get their land grabs without one but this time they were in for a rude surprise to understand the fighting the followed with the flow something about the city of shanghai itself situated near the mouth of the yangtze river it is the biggest city in china at the largest the port in the far east within that city of three and a half million chinese with another set of the foreign settlement made up of the french concession and the well known international settlements there are the various powers including great britain the united states and japan a station to catch most of troops japanese british french and our own united states marines what's this the that increase their garrison so that when fighting started on the border of their concession in august of one nine hundred thirty seven i thought they were fully prepared for any eventuality the force of the chinese counterattack almost drove the japs into the wangle river backed up by the have a guns of their warships however the japs managed to hold out until reinforcements arrive jap landings were then made in the vicinity of the can on the yangtze river north of shanghai the chinese drew back to positions five or ten miles inland where they could secure some protection from the hav at the same time the invaders succeeded in making a surprise landing some twenty miles to the south of shanghai put two divisions short and pushed rapidly north slob flan meanwhile enraged at the very idea of anyone resisting the imperial japanese might the japs took their vengeance upon the civilian population of a city a city without guns or planes to defend itself and deliberately slaughtered thousands from the in one of the bloodiest massacres of recorded history they murdered forty thousand men women this nightmare of cruelty was all the more horrible because it was deliberately planned by the japanese high command to tear the heart out of the chinese people once and for but the chinese knew that the will to resist was not by itself enough they knew the china must develop the power to resist all thought and this cannot be created in an instant so they too made a plan and it was this would slowly yield territories piece by piece while i developed the power and built the weapons to rid the land of its invaders the industrial strength of china must be moved to the west beyond the the on the railroad lines on the lines of communication they are safe from enemy attacks they might produce the rifles and guns but china so tragically need the us china would trade space place for a time blow up the factory building and then the people rose and moved riding walking crawling  chinese had reestablished their government by new however that the people of the city would not be safe from jap air raids the memories of shanghai were fresh in their minds and then the fans don't clap on which the city is built a new face in their hearts men and women left their homes and farms to fight for something bigger now than each man's home and each man farm in each man's life they were fighting for new china under the aid of china came volunteers from other lands men who pledged themselves to fight against iranian oppression no matter where americans like the legendary colonel solo in this flying tigers who  tanaka plan called for breaking the horse to their will but the great patience horse refused to be broke necessary material from indochina a narrow gauge railway ran inland from the sea to can make connecting with a truck that went to trunking but its capacity was limited and then there was the old trail of the camel caravans from russia across the gobi desert which could bring in even less not only did these routes provide too little for china's needs but they were too near jap territory to be safe it was only one other possibility  in to do the job they said the work might be completed in six or seven years if china could supply them with the most modern machinery but china didn't have the modern machinery nor did she have the six or seven year so she began building the road with their bare hands clock shuttled back and forth between the terminal climbing to nearly ten thousand feet around hairpin curve along the edges of sheer precipice the yellow sea but nearly a century ago a great flood abruptly changed its course swinging it far to the north for generation upon generation of the spring floods rushed down to the sea chinese worked on the dykes to hold the redbird in its new course protecting their homes and their crops which is the way the japs wanted it to look but the japanese were learning that the occupation of chinese cities and control of chinese rivers and railroads still would far from meaning the subj day deadly fighters the next they made an unpredictable and uncontrollable enemy the japanese were fighting more than the chinese people they were fighting the chinese land a great distance the rivers the floods of swamps and marsh these two were enemies but the five  incident this left them in a fight for quandary phase two of the tarmac a plan was still incomplete but phase three and pays for could no longer be delayed in russia the overwhelming german offensive was taxing russia's military capacity to the limit removing any japanese fear of russian interference written after the pledge hammer blows of dunkirk in the battle of britain was left groggy and militarily almost  d a navy tattered across the guarding our lifeline of supplies but here in america we were finally awakening to our danger and taking steps to protect ourselves we had appropriated funds for the construction of a two ocean navy and our army was rapidly expanding if the ultimate objectives of the tanakh a plan were to be achieved now was the moment to strike the conquest of the indies in the united states without waiting to complete phase two the conquest of china thus the paralyzed american power in the pacific without warning as they warning to all the rules of china's position should now be greatly improved in our war with japan china now had fighting allies the the british but it didn't work that way for china take it twice before they have been thrown back massing a large striking force near your child on christmas eve nineteen forty one of three points during the drive south the chinese force was put up token resistance but instead of withdrawing toward china shock they withdrew east into the mountain the plank my new year's eve the traps that surround the city pierce the outer defenses and attack the inner defense from four directions in spite of fierce resistance but japs are certain that the fall of trying shot was only a matter of hours what they didn't know was that they had walked into a well paid a trap for the whereupon the chinese launched a counter offensive and pushed the jack where they had come from another and greater story being written and in india american british and chinese forces are gathering strength under lord mountbatten for the liberation of china for china's war is our war on now over millions along not only to united china but also to the united nations leader of our american forces general still who has the unique honor of being the chief of staff of all the chinese expeditionary army division after division a fixed chinese troops are being flown in our planes from china to india where they are armed and equipped with the most modern american weapons trained in the heart and the spearhead the coming drive against japan through enemy held territory in