Tonwoche №438 (1939)

China.

The Europeans and Americans who lived in a resort town in China were cut off from the outside world.

After lengthy negotiations, the German Baar managed to get them permission to leave the combat zone along the Yangtze River.

A Chinese soldier with an American flag walks in front of the column.

Porters carry women and children on palanquins.

Refugees in Shanghai, they board a steamer.

Slovakia.

The opening of the 1st Slovak Landtag took place in Pressburg.

Former Secretary General of the Glinka Party Jozef Tiso was unanimously elected Chairman of the Landtag.

A national festival and parade were held in the capital to mark the occasion.

Officers, officials, and the population are standing in national costumes.

A representative of Germany is on the platform.

A military parade is underway, a detachment of Slovak fascists under a flag with a swastika.

USA. Completion of the construction of a dam in Colorado, California.

People on the observation deck.

The ceremonial opening of the five dam locks.

Power plant, turbine hall.

A powerful stream of water comes out of a pipe.

Germany.

Moving a huge statue of Victory from Berlin to the Tiergarten.

The statue in scaffolding, workers cutting the statue into pieces, moving it by crane.

Model of the statue installation on site.

Italy.

Dance scene from Rossini's opera "The Shop of Wonders" at the Royal Opera in Rome.

Germany.

New carnival costumes, the models for which were invented at the Berlin School of Textiles.

A model in a costume embroidered with pearls, with ostrich feathers. "Bird" costumes.

Prima of the Berlin Opera Liselotte Koester in an exotic costume.

A variety show performance in carnival costumes.

Germany.

The European Championships took place at the Sports Palace in Berlin.

A heavyweight boxing match between Austrian Hans Latzeck and Belgian Karl Suess.

Moments of the fight, after 15 rounds Latzeck defeated Suess.

Germany.

Shipyard in Bremen.

Launching of the new cruiser "Seydlitz" in the presence of Admiral Raeder.

The cruiser on the stocks, a panorama of the ship.

A line of sailors on the pier, Admirals Raeder, Forster and other officers walk around them.

Speech of the future fleet commander Richard Forster to the workers and sailors, he blesses the new ship.

The name of the ship is revealed, a bottle of champagne is thrown into the side.

A sailor in a sailor's cap with the inscription "Königsberg".

The cruiser leaves the stocks, welcoming cries.

The horn sounds.