The enemy of my enemy is my friend also. That’s the gist of this newsreel feature that depicts the sterling efforts of the largely agrarian Chinese population to defeat the aggression of the well prepared and highly industrialised Japanese Imperial forces who landed in Manchuria in the early 1930s. Then they promptly set about ensuring that nation’s vast mineral wealth could be used to further enhance a military machine that clearly had expansionist tendencies. There are some fairly graphic images contained here that illustrate well the brutality of the invaders before the Chinese manage to gal...