Tonwoche №488 (1940)

English troops leave Hong Kong.

The steamship Tak Sang in the port of Tiansin (Tianjin).

English soldiers get out of the railway carriages, walk along the embankment, and board the ship.

At the station, cargo is being transported by Chinese coolies, they are carrying boxes.

A Chinese man is sleeping on a pile of boxes with the inscription "Hong Kong".

Winter in Europe.

Italy, snow-covered streets of Rome.

Triumphal Arch, Colosseum.

Snow-covered square in front of the cathedral with a fountain in the center.

People are playing snowballs in the square.

Germany.

In Berlin, city residents go out into the streets to remove snow with shovels.

A boy sweeps snow with a mop.

Adults and children enjoy sledding down hills.

Skiing competitions for German conscripts are taking place in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

Ski jumping decorated with Olympic symbols.

The winner of the competition is Toni Eisgruber, in second place is Hammerschmidt from Innsbruck.

View of the ski jump and panorama of the surrounding area.

Berlin, Ransdorfer See.

Ice boat racing on the frozen lake.

Champion Ernst Holz on an ice boat.

Ice skating rink in Berlin.

Children's figure skating at the rink.

Girls skating en masse, spectators are watching.

Children are trying to do various figure skating elements: a swallow, a top, etc.

Vienna.

Female workers bring children to the kindergarten.

Children are playing in the room.

One of the girls has a birthday, the children congratulate her, kiss her, she treats her friends to cookies.

Lunch, children at the tables.

Tyrolean village.

A clothing repair service has been organized in the village.

Girls collect clothes in need of repair from houses, put them in baskets.

Girls with baskets walk down the street, enter a house.

Girls repairing clothes.

A boy sits at a spinning wheel, trying to twist a thread.

Poland.

Wilhelmplatz in the German-recaptured city of Posen in Poland.

A view of young German soldiers being sworn in.

Production processes at factories of the German military industry.

A worker turns a rifle butt on a machine.

Rifle barrels being turned.

Workers assembling rifles.

Rifle cartridges on a conveyor.

View of shells and their cartridges of different calibers.

Forge shop, press in operation.

Cartridges being forged.

Lathe in operation, cutter close-up.

Worker at the machine.

Welder at work.

Workers at the furnace pull out a red-hot gun barrel and forge it.

Workers assembling a gun.

Panorama of the shop, guns being assembled.

Germany.

Troops on maneuvers.

Horse artillery and cavalry are driving along the road.

Airplanes in the sky.

At the air raid signal, soldiers scatter and hide in a ditch.

A vehicle with an anti-aircraft gun mounted on it.

Cavalrymen crossing a stream.

Soldiers are installing a gun, firing at tanks.

Infantry units go on the offensive.

Explosions in the forest.

Soldiers leave the trenches and go on the attack, advancing in short dashes under the explosions.

Flamethrowers are fired.