Title:MEN OF THE CHINESE ARMY MARCH THROUGH HONG KONG [Allocated Title]
Film Number:ABY 174
Other titles:ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Units of the National Revolutionary Army (Chinese Nationalist army) march through Hong Kong.
Description: A crowd of Chinese civilians is supervised by British military policemen who wear white webbing and armbands marked 'DAPM' (Deputy Assistant Provost Marshal). The crowd wave the flag of the Republic of China (a red field and dark blue canton with a circular white sun and twelve triangular rays). Chinese students wearing brassards or armbands with the same white sun emblem. A man with a megaphone appears to be conducting the performance of a song. Faces of the crowd. A staff car is escorted along a road lined with civilians by military police motorcycles. A crowd of civilians lead a procession carrying banners. A column of Chinese cavalry on horseback. Various shots of procession and crowds. A string of firecrackers exploding on the ground. The parade marches on; some of the troops are seen carrying heavy machine guns and their tripods, others with rifles and one has an American Thompson submachine gun.
Alternative Title:ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: Air Ministry, Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor)
Royal Air Force Film Production Unit (Production company)
Layzell, R G (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Chinese Army (regiment/service)
Royal Air Force, RAF Police (regiment/service)
Keywords: Hong Kong (geography)
Liberation of Hong Kong 1945, Pacific War 1941-1945, Second World War (event)
Sino-Japanese War (2nd) 1937-1945 (event)
