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A Group of Male Japanese Soldiers, Many Waving Guns Aloft and Some With Japanese Flags, Celebrating Their Conquest of Hankow, 1937. Japanese invasion of China. 'Before the city of Hankow, the Japanese guns thunder into the old fortifications. The past goes down before a new and terrible conception of the future. The conception of might being right, and the Earth will be inherited by the strong...with the fall of Hankow, the conquerors pay homage to the beliefs that drove them to its wars. While their national anthem is played, they stand and face the direction of the Mikado's Palace in Tokyo'. From "Time To Remember - Sense Of Values", 1937 (Reel 4); documentary film about the events of 1937, war in the Far East, build up to war in Europe.