China’s civil war, 1948
Newsreel compilation of material on the retirement of Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek: Shows chinese landcape and peasants at work in fields. Tomb of Sun Yat Sen. Chiang giving speech. Chinese armies in trenches firing cannons. Planes dropping bombs and exploding. Chinese fleeing with belongings. Chiang and wife with Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. Rows of armaments. Communist armies firing from trenches. Packed Chinese street, people moving belongings in rickshaws. Crowds with hands outstetched for food.
