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Object description
Album 23 contains: scenes in Kwang-chang village including: the village shopkeeper, Chinese soldiers, civilians and children, street scenes; scenes showing a truck accident on the road to Pihu involving Maj Gen Gordon Grimsdale and members of the British Military Mission including: views of the truck lodged in an outcrop of rock and the party making their way to a boat to by taken to Pihu by river; views of rice fields and mountain scenery in the Chekiang Province; views of the Temple at Pucheng showing a row of idols inside the temple; scenes on the Min-kiang River, Kiangsi Province, including: portraits of Chinese ferrymen, a Chinese peasant boy on a ferryboat, Chinese soldiers and members of the British Military Mission on a ferryboat; scenes showing the entertainment of Chinese troops including: some of the actors during rehearsal, props men backstage, Mrs Pao, the leading actress; scenes at Hingkwohsien, Kiangsi Province including: coolies waiting for the river ferry, a charcoal burning lorry, a teahouse, a ferry pushing off from the riverbank; scenes at the Red Cross Hospital in Changsha including: Medical Superintendent, Dr Flowers talking to Dr Locher, Hospital Matron, Miss Day in the grounds, Miss Toop and Maj Handley Derry; scenes in Siang-tan, Hunan Province including: street scenes at the entrance to the railway station, paddy fields; coolies at work at a riverside quarry near Changsha; scenes in Taiho, Kiangsi Province including: street scenes showing newly created shop fronts; Chinese rickshaw boys; Chinese school at Nanfeng including: children in the playground and in the classroom, two of the masters, the entrance to the school; scenes in Kweilin, capital of Kwangsi including: the entrance to the Memorial Hall, views of Elephant Tusk Hill cave and of people waiting outside it during an air raid, sampans on the River Li King, views of Chung-nan Road, labourers sawing wood during the rebuilding of houses after bombing, men reading the latest war bulletins, views of the countryside, townsfolk crossing Chung-Cheng Bridge and returning to their homes following an air raid, the entrance to the Provincial Hospital, Chinese actors in the dressing room of Kweilin Theatre, portrait of the actor Mr. Mar; scenes at Yunta University, Kunming, including: the steps and entrance of the university; scenes at Kweilin Aerodrome including: American pilots watching a plane taking off, views of the airstrip; series entitled 'British Military Mission to China' which includes: portraits of Maj Gen Gordon Grimsdale, Maj B Hemingway and a Chinese driver of the British Army Aid Group truck; scenes at a wireless factory in Kweilin including: views of students making meters, new students working on the factory road to improve the site during their training, an apprentice making a lathe, testing a finished mobile wireless transmitter, views of the interior of the factory, portrait of Dr Yen, the Managing Director of the factory; scenes at Jain Temple, Calcutta including: women and children at the entrance, views of the garden, statues in the grounds; views of St. John's Church in Calcutta; scenes showing an Indian Magician performing magic tricks in Benares; scenes at Purana Ghat, Jaipur, including: painted archways, pavilions and colonnades; portrait of Sir Mirza Ismail, Prime Minister of Jaipur.