the only danger points in the spray seem to be the toes of the fight fans certainly these iron headed beast seem to be enjoying it  here too we have a winner but sometimes the rivers of china turn unkind and the disaster of flood visits the countryside in the past millions of lives and billions and property values have been destroyed by the water but in the future modern engineering will control these rivers for the safety and the service of the people this is just another of the many big tasks a peacetime for which the government and people are now preparing even while they carry on china has been called the sleeping giant because it clung to the ways of the past while the younger civilizations of europe and america embarked on the industrial revolution but in the years following nine hundred eleven when the reign o the manchu emperors was ended china began to relax its old rigid tradition of farm and village culture and to emerge into the modern world this progress was slow down by the civil wars that were the birth pangs of the new republic but the industrial revolution had begun and the chinese were showing a natural aptitude for the use of the machine the great seaport of shanghai was the center of this new industrialized shanghai it was first attacked by the japanese in one nine hundred thirty two a year after their seizure of manchuria and from then on the chinese worked rapidly to build the wealth and the productive power which they knew they would need to withstand the inevitable assault on china proper on the home front some residential sections like this were constructed public health clinics were opened the best of modern medicine came to china and was welcomed by government of the people populate occasionally spreading young china was going to school james again who studied in america and gone home to china started this great mass education movement working with the government he devised a sort of basic chinese from these countries complicated picture language and even young children found they could master this after they learn the shapes of the characters they actually write is greatly simplif this pretty little girl seems to be having no trouble was building strong minds and strong bodies aware of the importance to the nation of a vigorous and informed you here's a young fellow needs business the life of young people in the large cities was much like ours here in america colleges were producing fine representatives the new china studying the arts  but peace was not on the programme of the ambitious rulers of the island empire across the china seas suddenly in one nine hundred thirty seven the japanese struck on a vast scale and china's then different scenes defenseless unoffending people fleeing from the horrors of total war china had so many coventry's so many lead it says it had long ago lost count individuals lost everything and the nation faced with total war at last more than seventy percent of its industrial capacity to make the tools and munitions of war such a vast this place with a population died of starvation and those were indeed fortunate who found strength in the rice bowl to struggle  dust began the greatest mass migration in modern history millions of people took to the roads in the hills rather than stay at home with bow their heads  they came flocking into the undeveloped interior where there was no work but where they were appalling scarcities of goods and food out of this bitter necessity came a brilliant plan and program today known all over the world of the chinese industrial co operative movement refugees register for food and a job in the workshops the cooperatives set up their first meager equipment and small units in the walls of cities in caves in the hills under trees or wherever shelter could be found from the weather and from roving japanese bombers often they had to use century old methods for lack of modern tools thousands of women rallied to spin and weave army blankets for the soldiers in the face out of occupied areas guerrilla soldiers and workers spirited tools and materials to the co operative factories some equipment was set up as powers to deal hundred miles from its starting to new types of machines were produced that could be used by the cooperatives under emergency condition northern two thousand of these cooperative workshops five hundred different articles on aid for the army red cross and civilian population thus many refugees of china who had lost everything even hope itself were blessed with the gift of work and the chance to help their country when it spied for freedom at this campus co operative the day's production is ready for shipment to the armies in the field the mule train starts out on an overland journey to the front lines medical supplies for the hospitals and first millions of young men like these have given their lives for the defense of china millions of young men no other nation has paid a greater price for freedom the faces the fighting china good comrades for us to have in this gigantic war we fight in asia pacific the leader of fighting china generalisable junk a ship and the heart of fighting china junking capital city of a nation that remains after seven years of war on conquered