Labels:text | newspaper | newsprint | publication | man | black and white OCR: Scene from "The Union Jack Is Down". 'The Union Jack Is Down,' Film Of Hongkong Battle A VIVID screen representationment, to which Kitazawa belonged of the battle for Hongkong re- was ordered to attack Hongkong. Th enacted on the scene of action Imperial Forces succeeded in penetrat and completed with the assist- ing into Sumchun, on the Anglo ance and instructions of the Im- Chinese border no time. an perial Expeditionary Forces in thenceforward captured Kowloon. South China, has now reached All the 1,700,000 inhabitants in th Syonan. It will be faland were panic-stricken with the screened simultaneously at the Kyoei and attack and talked about the advise bility of an unconditional surrender t Sycwa Gekijos from tomorrow. Nippon. It was only for the obstinac The picture is an indisputably true- of Governor Young, who ignored such to-life record of total warfare, consist- a suggestion, that the place continued ing of the use of all types of weapons to suffer the destruction of war. including intensive air support. Those Nippon soldiers appearing in By that time, Toki, Kosuke this picture all had actual experiences Sanal were interned, together with an in this bat- many other Nippon-jins, at the Stanle tle and Prison. They were all overwhelmed with joy by the brilliant results being some o ! them were achieved by the Imperial Forces at th very start of the war. even con- valescen t s Meanwhile, Kitazawa was serioush who had wounded while he challeng:d the been been woun- enemy tanks bearing down upon him ded during all of a sudden with fire-emitters the course This happened at a crossroad some of the war where in Stanley where the enemy in Hongkong. checked, under the protection of con There are also crete establishments, the advance of several thou- Kitazawa's unit who had launched a sands of neu- furious attack near Mount Nichol trals and and Bri- son after their landing in front of the tish war pri- caemy. soners assisting The place somewhere In Ab:rdeer in the produc- as recorded in his notebook might well tion of this be considered as the place from where 01m. he reported on his accident. The cast of As soon as the white flag was hoisted "The Union at the Stanley Prison, Corpora Jack is Down!" Miyagawa and Yamanoto, a first-clas A Dal Nippon private, arranged the release of all Eiga Seisaku Nippon-jins being interned there, and K.K. production, directed by Shigeo with Tanaka by Aojima, photography Junichiro is Fujimoto (Jun Ussmi): Liang Meng- follows: Takashi chi (Kanji Koshiba); Liang Hung-l'en (Tzi Lo-lan): Sanae Yoshioka (Kiyo Kuroda); Soong Yuk-sang Yamaguchi); Soong Mel-lan (Kiyoko (Isanu Hirai); Chung Chung-wan (Kenichiro Nemura). The story is as follows: Kitazawa, later. a sub-lieutenant, but originally on the staff of the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, Hongkong branch, on the very day when he was going to leave for coled on the mother of their Com Tokyo to report for duty at the Head mander, all of them bursting i Office, was called to military service tears on s:eing one another. at a place somewhere nearby, as there A white flag was, however, hoisted were batches of Indian soldiers dis- on top of the Victoria Peak ir no time embarking in this hge-long British signalling the unconditional surrende base for exploitation of Toa, indicat- being offered by the British Army. ing their last attempt to bluff Nippon. While the firing was cainiing down, Kitazawa's mother, a pro-Nippon Chinese by the name of brother, Kosuke, and his Tok !. younger fiancee. Lang Meng Chi, called on Kosuke a Sanal, were, however, to remain be- the Kitazawa Shokal. He told Kosuke hind to take care of their firm, the of the mishap in which Miss Hun Kitazawa Shokal, which had been Lian, who meekly entertained a deep gaining in prosperity daily as a result attachment for Fujimoto, was atrocious of their Jate father's strenuous efforts ly killed, on her way to take sueiter for many years. Kitazawa was training in t undergoing intensive by the lawless British; training in the place where he was Kitazawa, while being confined bed, was greatly inspired with the sound stationed. One: day. he came across of bugles, signalling the marching of War Fujimoto, correspondent formerly named the Imperial Forces into the city. He who Was He told him that every- rose up with tears of joy in his eyes. schoolmate. His regiment was then dispatched to thing concerning his regiment was the South. They would ever be re- then being kept in the strictest secreev. On Dec. 8, 2601, the Sibano Regi- membered by him though he was un- able to go with them.
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